Bug 153931

Summary:	Spell check stops working in Writer & Calc
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	mikemckibbin
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	mikemckibbin, stephane.guillou
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.5.0.3 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	109527
Attachments:	Wrter spellcheck test document test doc re-attached with correct file type

Description mikemckibbin 2023-03-02 18:07:06 UTC

Description:
For the last several days, when I start spellchecker in a Writer document, it stops after checking a few, sometimes several, words. The bottom half of the spellcheck screen goes dark and when I click on the "Correct" or "Correct All" buttons nothing happens. This same issue occurs when I spell-check a Calc spreadsheet. I also can't close spellcheck and it eventually crashes LO.

I use a Dell laptop with Windows 11, everything is updated. I’ve checked some of the other questions related to spell check but nothing seems to work. I even uninstalled and reinstalled LO and changed my user profile using the “.old” process. I also had the same issue in safe mode.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create or open Writer document.
2. Run spellcheck. It stops working after checking anywhere from 3-4 words, sometimes more.


Actual Results:
Spellcheck stopped working and would not close. LO crashed.

Expected Results:
Spell check correctly works throughout the entire document and does not cause LO to crash.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 7.5.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: c21113d003cd3efa8c53188764377a8272d9d6de
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

Comment 1 mikemckibbin 2023-03-02 18:11:57 UTC

Created attachment 185705 [details]
Wrter spellcheck test document

Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-02 23:43:28 UTC

Thank you for the report.
Can you please install version 7.5.1 and see if it is fixed? Sounds like the already-fixed bug 152738.
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

Comment 3 mikemckibbin 2023-03-03 20:11:57 UTC

(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #2)
> Thank you for the report.
> Can you please install version 7.5.1 and see if it is fixed? Sounds like the
> already-fixed bug 152738.
> https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

As of Thursday, March 2, version 7.5.1 still had this issue with the spellchecker. I downloaded version 7.4.5.1 and it has worked fine. I use LO professionally and must do quite a bit of customization every time I uninstall and reinstall LO so I do not want to do so again until some time has passed and this issue is addressed. I would think the already-fixed bug occurred before I started experiencing this issue.

Comment 4 mikemckibbin 2023-03-03 20:13:43 UTC

As of Thursday, March 2, version 7.5.1 still had this issue with the spellchecker. I downloaded version 7.4.5.1 and it has worked fine. I use LO professionally and must do quite a bit of customization every time I uninstall and reinstall LO so I do not want to do so again until some time has passed and this issue is addressed. I would think the already-fixed bug occurred before I started experiencing this issue.

Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-04 10:12:28 UTC

Thanks for testing, Mike.
Seeing that we also have bug 153628, it might be that the issue was not completely resolved in some cases.

Still, I haven't been able to reproduce your issue with:

Version: 7.5.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fcbaee479e84c6cd81291587d2ee68cba099e129
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded

Comment 6 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-07 21:50:07 UTC

Created attachment 185825 [details]
test doc re-attached with correct file type

Thanks Mike, I can actually reproduce with the following steps:

1. Open document
2. Start spellcheck (F7), language is English (USA) (I have the green tick)
3. Click "Ignore Once" for "outdented", it ignores successfully. Also click "Ignore once" for "Gravatar".

Result: stuck in an "Ignore once" -> "Resume" loop.

Issue is inconsistent. Other behaviours witnessed:
- Dialog reports that spellcheck is completed even though many more words remain underlined as misspelled
- Spellcheck goes through the whole process without any issue. I can't figure out why I can't reliably reproduce.

Version: 7.5.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fcbaee479e84c6cd81291587d2ee68cba099e129
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Comment 7 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-16 09:30:28 UTC

Marking as duplicate of earlier report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 153628 ***