Bug 104916 - LO53b2: Opening Help in Start Center crashes LO
Summary: LO53b2: Opening Help in Start Center crashes LO
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.3.0.0.beta2
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-12-24 22:40 UTC by Martin Srebotnjak
Modified: 2017-07-31 12:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


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Fatal error? (26.50 KB, image/png)
2016-12-24 22:46 UTC, Martin Srebotnjak
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Description Martin Srebotnjak 2016-12-24 22:40:49 UTC
Description:
Opening help from Help menu in Start Center crashes LO.
First a pop up window appears:
title: LibreOfficeDev 5.3 - Fatal Error
text: Given module is not a frame nor a window, controller or model.
buttons: OK
Then LO crashes.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open LO 5.3b2 or LO 5.3RC1
2. Go to Help - LibreOffice Help (with help installed)
3. Press OK in the error pop-up window

Actual Results:  
LO crashed.

Expected Results:
Some default help page should show up.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
This is bug one.
But there should probably be another bug report for this, as the error window is not localizable (running LO with 100 % localized UI and help in Slovenian it appears in English).


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Comment 1 Martin Srebotnjak 2016-12-24 22:46:42 UTC
Created attachment 129930 [details]
Fatal error?
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2016-12-25 15:16:11 UTC
Can not reproduce on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit en-US with
Version: 5.3.0.0.beta2 (x64)
Build ID: a7e30712ad6d8bc9286007b37aa581983e0caba3
CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: GL; Layout Engine: new; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: CL

and the local en-US help installed.

OS X only?
Comment 3 Martin Srebotnjak 2016-12-25 16:06:25 UTC
Most probably on OSX only, marking it as such.
Comment 4 steve 2017-01-01 21:41:19 UTC
worksforme in Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 2e9c02feca732f6dd012ccbe5d7c6853c64075a5
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.2; UI Render: default; 
TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2016-12-20_00:24:18
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); Calc: group
Comment 5 Martin Srebotnjak 2017-01-01 23:19:54 UTC
I reported it for 5.3b2 and 5.3rc1, not for master.
Comment 6 steve 2017-01-02 11:25:54 UTC
Hi miles and yet testing those versions is totally legit, no?
I can't find 5.3 RC1 on the LO website. Could you post a link? Asked in QA IRC why 5.3 RC where not listed and found:
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/mac/x86_64/

Tested 5.3 RC1 Version: 5.3.0.1
Build ID: 3b800451b1d0c48045de03b5b3c7bbbac87f20d9
CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.2; UI Render: default; Layout Engine: new; 
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); Calc: group

With 5.3RC1 the crash is reproduced. Help opens fine, but LO crashes and shows the document recovery dialog.

Setting to NEW + adding regression keyword.
Comment 7 V Stuart Foote 2017-01-02 13:34:00 UTC
(In reply to steve -_- from comment #6)
...
> I can't find 5.3 RC1 on the LO website. Could you post a link? Asked in QA
> IRC why 5.3 RC where not listed and found:
> http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/mac/x86_64/
...

http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/
Comment 8 Paul Oranje 2017-02-20 11:55:29 UTC
With the app running no window opened, so with the menu consisting of only the application and the file menus, LO will crash when try trying to start a new document from a template.

syslog shows:
   Feb 20 12:47:58 boekje-5 soffice[44578]: assertion failed: 16D32: libxpc.dylib + 74307 [65E41BB6-EBD5-3D93-B0BE-B190CEE4DD93]: 0x89
Comment 9 Gabriele Ponzo 2017-06-13 20:18:54 UTC
It happens to me as well, and I have to remark that CMD+O should be the shortcut to Open a file, but it causes the crash too.

So there could be a mistake on the shortcut (leading to Help instead of Opening file) or the file opening crashes too.

Versione: 5.3.3.2
Build ID: 3d9a8b4b4e538a85e0782bd6c2d430bafe583448
Thread CPU: 4; Versione SO: Mac OS X 10.8.5; Resa interfaccia: GL; Motore layout: nuovo; 
Versione locale: it-IT (it.UTF-8); Calc: group

Moreover, I tried to get this data (LO Version) from the Start Center and it didn't work too. I had to open Writer to have such a dialog.
The result in this case is just nothing: when hitting on "Info on LibreOffice" from "LibreOffice" menu bithing happens.
The same with LO started with no window shown (as known, it's a MacOs peculiarity to have apps open with no existing windows).

Should I open a different Bug for this?

Finally I can confirm also the crash when trying to start a new document from a template, in no window shown mode.

I hope those info may help to fix this awful crash.
Comment 10 Gabriele Ponzo 2017-06-13 20:21:17 UTC
CMD+O is not a misleading shortcut (accelerator): invoking Open from File menu crashes as well :(
Comment 11 Alex Thurgood 2017-07-31 12:01:17 UTC
no repro 


Version: 5.3.4.2
Build ID: f82d347ccc0be322489bf7da61d7e4ad13fe2ff3
Threads CPU : 4; Version de l'OS :Mac OS X 10.12.6; UI Render : par défaut; Moteur de mise en page : nouveau; 
Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group