Bug 105528 - Random Freeze and Crash
Summary: Random Freeze and Crash
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.2.3.3 release
Hardware: Other macOS (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2017-01-25 17:05 UTC by cjpresson.consulting
Modified: 2017-09-29 08:53 UTC (History)
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Description cjpresson.consulting 2017-01-25 17:05:16 UTC
Description:
The entire program randomly freezes and often crashes, he's to be forced to quit and restarted, and loses all new data when I switch to another window then back again, even if the other window is also a Libre document. I have lost countless hours attempting to recreate lost data due to these crashes. This is an unacceptable error.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a document in Libre. Type for some period of time.
2.Switch to another window.
3.Switch back to the original Libre window.

Actual Results:  
Sometimes the bug doesn't occur, but it often does and with increasing frequency. Every update has made the problem worse. It's the only program on my computer that doesn't function properly or bugs in this manner.

Expected Results:
I should have been able to switch to my research material then returned to the document to continue typing.


Reproducible: Sometimes

User Profile Reset: No. That is a complicated process that I don't expect to have to tackle in order to make a program function as designed.

Additional Info:
In older versions of this software, I have typed literally thousands of pages without incident. I don't know what was altered in recent versions, but it needs to be fixed. Stop fiddling with a program when it works.


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_2) AppleWebKit/602.3.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0.2 Safari/602.3.12
Comment 1 Julien Nabet 2017-01-25 21:23:46 UTC
2 things you can do:
1) update to 5.2.4
2) take a look to https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/FirstSteps which talks about reset LO profile. Please don't tell me it's a complicate process to rename a folder.
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2017-02-09 09:28:11 UTC
@cjpresson : if the freeze is random, how are we supposed to even attempt to reproduce it ? The details you give are insufficient.

I regularly type long Writer documents, with several other LibreOffice windows open at the same time (Draw, Database, etc) - I don't experience the crashes you seem to. I am also using LibreOffice 5.2.x (although the latest iteration thereof) on OSX 10.12.2.

If you aren't prepared to even try resetting your user profile, or provide us with more precise detail on how and when the crashes occur and how to reproduce them, then we are going to be unable to help move this report anywhere except to the RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA flag. For all we know, it could be a problem with OSX - there have already been at least two different bug reports of crashes which were linked to changes that Apple introduced in OSX 10.12 in the way it manages graphics cards. These were fixed, or partly fixed in later Apple updates.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2017-08-30 19:26:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2017-09-29 08:53:50 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

Please read this message in its entirety before proceeding.

Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and
a lack of information which is needed in order to accurately
reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest
your bug against the latest release. If the issue is still
present in the latest stable release, we need the following
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