Bug 103731

Summary: Ctrl-A crash in large documents
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: David <nicad_2>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA    
Severity: normal CC: serval2412, xiscofauli
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.0.3.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description David 2016-11-05 21:32:10 UTC 
Description:
When tryping a capital A in a large document, and accidentally hitting Ctrl-A, Writer crashes trying to "select all". Doc size:15m Characters plus. This happened also in Open Office before I upgraded O/S to Linux Mint and started as soon as the document went much above a million characters if I remember rightly. (it's a book, around 5,000 pages). I have reasons why I want it in one file.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a very large document and work on it without saving
2. Press Ctrl-A
3.

Actual Results:  
Writer goes into such a long loop trying to select all the text, that it times out and crashes, er, well It seems to crash, I tried leaving it for an hour or so, but it had crashed

Expected Results:
Loss of all work since last save, and often a problem even recovering from the last auto-save, so recovery data usually needs to be discarded and  the file reopened.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Would it be possible to disable the left Ctrl button so that a miss trype  of Ctrl-A doesn't cause this problem? It's a real nuisance when you have just tryped a whole page and lose it!


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Comment 1 Julien Nabet 2016-11-05 22:04:54 UTC 
5.0 branch is EOL and 5.1 will be soon.
Please give a try to last stable LO version 5.2.2. I think you'll find it on LO ppa. (see https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa)
Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2016-11-07 16:20:47 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2017-05-31 10:51:22 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2017-06-28 12:34:30 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)