Bug 156127

Summary: LibreOffice hangs when choosing Tools -> Language -> For All Text -> Spanish (Spain)
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte>
Component: LinguisticAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: sophi, stephane.guillou
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.5.4.2 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Description Andres G. Aragoneses 2023-07-03 03:27:51 UTC
I'm marking this as _critical_ because app hanging is similar to a crash (as it leads to data loss). I've waited 5minutes already and the UI doesn't recover from a "Not responding" state, so I've had to kill the app and lose all the work that I had been doing from the last time I saved the document.

This has happened to me on Windows (v7.5.4.2), but it may happen as well in other platforms. I cannot reproduce this bug, though, for very small document (around 2 pages), but I can reproduce it reliably for a document of around 100 pages.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open large document (in my testing, the language I can see in the status bar is "English (Hong Kong)").
2. Tools -> Language -> For All Text -> Spanish (Spain)

Expected results:
Change language in status bar, and maybe start highlighting in underline-red the words that are no in the Spanish dictionary?

Current results:
It hangs, I cannot use LibreOffice for 5minutes already and so I need to kill it.

(Maybe with a large document, this action may take time, but if this is the case, the way to fix it is showing a progress bar to the user so that she doesn't suspect that the app is dead.)
Comment 1 Andres G. Aragoneses 2023-07-03 03:30:05 UTC
> I cannot reproduce this bug, though, for very small document (around 2 pages)

FYI, wrt the above test, I used this text: https://es.lipsum.com/
Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-07-03 07:49:05 UTC
Thank you for the report, Andres!

Can you please test the pre-release for 7.5.5, as I am pretty sure you are encountering bug 155939, which is already fixed: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?type=deb-x86_64&version=7.5.5&lang=en-US

I am pre-emptively marking as a duplicate, but please report back on your test and mark as "unconfirmed" if it turns out I am mistaken.

Thank you!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155939 ***