Description: while setting up a mailmerge and wanting to go ahead with button 'next' from personal salutation (which was not applied in my case) libreoffice freezes and even blocks ubuntu at all. I tried and reproduced this 10 times with different documents and diffent adress / data bases. Steps to Reproduce: 1.set up a mailmerge in writer 2. 3. Actual Results: frozen system Expected Results: produce a proper mailmerge Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 5.1.6.2 Build ID: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.4; UI Render: default; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/63.0.3239.84 Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36
Created attachment 138730 [details] mailmerge window where the system freezes
Created attachment 138732 [details] screenshot of frozen window at mailmerge wizard
LibreOffice 5.1 is quite old. Please test with a fresh version. With an appimage you can very easily test even a pre-release: http://libreoffice.soluzioniopen.com/ Set to NEEDINFO. Change back to UNCONFIRMED, if the problem persists. Change to RESOLVED WORKSFORME, if the problem went away.
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