Bug 117025 - Deleting bullets in a table cell when cell crosses pages crashes Writer
Summary: Deleting bullets in a table cell when cell crosses pages crashes Writer
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.2.1 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: corruptProfile
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2018-04-16 01:55 UTC by bernie
Modified: 2018-04-18 21:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Document with the problem (20.22 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2018-04-16 01:57 UTC, bernie
Details
Snapshot showing the situation that causes the problem. (185.84 KB, image/jpeg)
2018-04-17 05:37 UTC, bernie
Details
Snapshot showing the crash (196.90 KB, image/jpeg)
2018-04-17 05:38 UTC, bernie
Details

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Description bernie 2018-04-16 01:55:43 UTC
Description:
I have a four column table the width of a page and three pages long.  A cell at the bottom of the first page has bulleted text in one cell.  That cell crosses the page break.  Every time I update that cell to turn off the bullets, LibreOffice Writer "Stops working",  It crashes.  Fortunately the document is recoverable.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Writer, create a page width table with four columns.
2. Add enough rows to spill over to a second page.
3. In a row near the bottom of the first page, in the third column add a few two or three word paragraphs, enough to make the row split across pages.
4. Highlight those paragraphs and make them bullets.
5. Save the document.
6. Highlight the bulleted lines and turn-off bullets.
3.

Actual Results:  
Writer crashes every time.

Expected Results:
Bullets should disappear.  I should be able to replace the text in the cell.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Version: 6.0.2.1 (x64)
Build ID: f7f06a8f319e4b62f9bc5095aa112a65d2f3ac89
CPU threads: 6; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 bernie 2018-04-16 01:57:13 UTC
Created attachment 141385 [details]
Document with the problem
Comment 2 Dieter 2018-04-16 07:23:13 UTC
I tried to reproduce it with


Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 2325f9ac789cd12e5ecc9d239baf2558e1d678bb
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; 
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-04-05_00:37:47
Locale: en-US (de_DE); Calc: CL

I opened the attached document marked the bulleted lines at the bottom of the first page and turned of bullets => no crash.

Bernie, I think there were some bug fixes with tables in LO 6.0.3. Can you reproduce the crash also with this version?
Comment 3 Xisco Faulí 2018-04-16 13:45:57 UTC
I can't reproduce it in

Version: 6.0.3.2
Build ID: 1:6.0.3~rc2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1~lo2
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.13; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group
Comment 4 Xisco Faulí 2018-04-16 13:46:32 UTC
Could you please create and attach a screencast showing the steps?

There are various free screencast software available for use, including Camstudio (Windows), Jing (Mac), Simple Screen Recorder (Linux) or screencast-o-matic.com (Web).
Comment 5 bernie 2018-04-17 03:51:51 UTC
I've created Camvideo avi recordings that show the failure, but the smallest file that I could create is 255MB and the largest file that can be uploaded is only 30MB.  Do you have someplace that you would like me to upload the video?

I am attaching two screenshots that do show the problem.
"Bullet bug snapshot.jpg" shows the situation with the cell with the bulleted list spanning a page.
"Bullets failed.jpg" shows the failure.  The bulleted text was highlighted and then the bullet turned off.  You can see that the text is still highlighted and the bullets are gone, but then Writer crashes immediately.
Comment 6 bernie 2018-04-17 05:37:44 UTC
Created attachment 141414 [details]
Snapshot showing the situation that causes the problem.
Comment 7 bernie 2018-04-17 05:38:51 UTC
Created attachment 141415 [details]
Snapshot showing the crash
Comment 8 bernie 2018-04-17 05:42:17 UTC
I've uploaded two videos to Google Photos.  One shows a small part of the document and Writer failing.  It was an attempt to make the video smaller.  The larger video shows more of the document and the failure.

Smaller video links is https://photos.app.goo.gl/hHtKZgltfSoj3N5j1

and larger video is https://photos.app.goo.gl/DiUxVB9jaokVdnpi2
Comment 9 Xisco Faulí 2018-04-18 16:25:48 UTC
To be certain the reported issue is not related to corruption in the user profile, could you please reset your Libreoffice profile ( https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile ) and
re-test?
Comment 10 bernie 2018-04-18 20:24:34 UTC
Works properly in Safe mode.  Returning to normal mode, it still fails.  What do you suggest?
Comment 11 Xisco Faulí 2018-04-18 21:33:48 UTC
(In reply to bernie from comment #10)
> Works properly in Safe mode.  Returning to normal mode, it still fails. 
> What do you suggest?

ah, good to know.
In that case, I would recommend you to delete the user profile as explained here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME as the problem is as corrupted profile...