Bug 153365 - Invoking font list freezes program and after long delay crashes LibreOffice
Summary: Invoking font list freezes program and after long delay crashes LibreOffice
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.2.3 release
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2023-02-04 04:49 UTC by John Hale
Modified: 2023-09-04 03:13 UTC (History)
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Description John Hale 2023-02-04 04:49:40 UTC
Description:
Windows 64. With text program and slide program, invoking font list freezes program and after long delay crashes LibreOffice. Have tried repeatedly with all 7.4 releases and 7.5. One user online said that this problem did not exist with 7.3.7. I installed 7.3.7, and it pulled up my font list immediately without problem. The text used to experiment was very short, so file size is not the issue. My laptop has a modern CPU and 8mb of RAM. It has handled multiple graphics programs simultaneously with problem. The user scenario is that many users, such as I am, need to access multiple fonts for document design. Inability to access such a basic capability as fonts is a deal breaker. I am willing to use the deprecated 7.3 for a reasonable time to fix this bug. Otherwise, users needing more than basic text design will have to look elsewhere. Thanks for your help.    

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open Writer or Impress on Windows
2.type in a sentence
3.call up font list (I have, like other designers, a long list of fonts, which however works quickly and smoothly on 7.3.7.

Actual Results:
The new versions freeze the system including other applications, then at least 80% of the time completely crashes.

Expected Results:
Font list should invoke immediately to use in modifying text.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
All as above
Comment 1 John Hale 2023-02-04 04:52:46 UTC
Error occurs from 7.4.2 onward through to including current 7.5

As noted, works fine on 7.3.7
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2023-02-04 16:24:38 UTC
No issue with
Version: 7.4.5.1 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 9c0871452b3918c1019dde9bfac75448afc4b57f
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: es-ES (es_ES); UI: en-US Calc: threaded

Maybe you have an unusual number of fonts installed?
Or perhaps some Font broken?
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2023-08-04 03:18:58 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2023-09-04 03:13:32 UTC
Dear John Hale,

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
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