Bug 154441 - Unstable - regular crashes
Summary: Unstable - regular crashes
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.1.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2023-03-29 09:30 UTC by david.c.day
Modified: 2023-10-27 03:13 UTC (History)
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Description david.c.day 2023-03-29 09:30:43 UTC
Description:
No apparent pattern to this, but editing documents (length of 90 or so pages in this case), Writer freezes, then crashes, losing all recent edits, even upon recovery.  

This instability has haunted the last couple of versions (I am using the latest 7.5.1.2).

Switching auto-spell checking off improves it, but does not eliminate it.  There are a lot of ignored spellings in this technical document, not sure if relevant.  There are tables and a coupld of photos as well.  It relies on auto and manual page breaks, depending upon content.

"Feels" pretty consistent once it goes - the time between the freeze and the crash on this system is about 3seconds.

Steps to Reproduce:
Just get on with editing/typing work, but when it goes, it goes.  Usually extending the document at the end, and editing typos as I go, by hand.

Actual Results:
It just freezes - no mouse or keyboard possible.  Crashes app.  Restart.  Document recovery process.  Document reverts to last saved state.

Expected Results:
Ideally, no freeze and no crash, please!


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-GB
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: no
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-29 09:56:12 UTC
Thank you for the report, David.
Could you please:
- paste here the information about your version here, copied from Help > About LibreOffice
- if possible, share a document that can help reproduce the issue (with personal information removed) as an attachment to this report ("Add and attachment" link)
- test the upcoming version, 7.5.2, to see if it improves things: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/?type=deb-x86_64&version=7.5.2&lang=en-US

Thank you!
Comment 2 david.c.day 2023-03-29 10:08:08 UTC
As requested:
Version: 7.5.1.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fcbaee479e84c6cd81291587d2ee68cba099e129
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
Calc: CL threaded

I have now downloaded pre-release 7.5.2 x64 version, and will report back.

This has applied to several documents of this kind of length.  They are confidential/"internal use only" in nature, and may not be shared.  Apologies in that.

Thanks for a quick response.
Comment 3 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-29 10:39:22 UTC
Thank you.

It would be also good to test with Help > Safe Mode to see if the issue is linked to Skia/Vulkan (the "UI Render" in your version information).
It might be that the issue doesn't happen with Skia turned off.

If that's the case, please share the information from your Skia log, which might be in a directory like AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\cache\skia.log (depending on how LibreOffice was installed).
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2023-09-26 03:14:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2023-10-27 03:13:49 UTC
Dear david.c.day,

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
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