Bug 154743 - Impress crashes each time I try to select some of the advanced slide transitions (vortex, honeycomb etc.)
Summary: Impress crashes each time I try to select some of the advanced slide transiti...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
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7.5.2.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Reported: 2023-04-10 10:05 UTC by george
Modified: 2023-04-11 09:45 UTC (History)
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Description george 2023-04-10 10:05:21 UTC 
Description:
Libre Impress crashes each time I try to select some of the advanced slide transitions (vortex, honeycomp etc.)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create any slideshow
2.try to add advanced slideshow transitions like vortex, honeycomp etc.
3.Impress crashes and takes with it my DE (cinnamon) which restarts.

Actual Results:
Tried disabling hardware acceleration, start in safe mode, disable anti-aliasing, set in soffice.sh the variable SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen, NOTHING works.

my system specs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yYK4Rx4Mu-XeaO9YiiDxI79BS17ge_5pYAdPank6K84/edit?usp=sharing

Expected Results:
Transitions should be able to work without crashing.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 7.5.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 50(Build:2)
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 5.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: el-GR (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 4:7.5.2~rc2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1~lo1
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 george 2023-04-10 10:41:58 UTC 
UPDATE:

I tested on my laptop (Ryzen 5500u - same Linux Mint 21.1) and it worked fine.

So I went back to my desktop (Ryzen 5800X3D + Radeon 5600XT + Linux Mint 21.1)

I tried to install latest kernel (6.10) using mainline tool. The problem remained.

Last resort was to try to update my mesa drivers using oibaf ppa (I use linux mint)

So, up to now I was using mesa drivers *Mesa 23.0.0*-devel (git-64d584b 2022-12-05 jammy-oibaf-ppa). Had to updated them some months ago to resolve a graphical glitch with my desktop. 

I made a timeshift snapshot (mesa updates can be messy) and updated my mesa drivers to latest version *Mesa 23.1.0*-devel (git-4ac56e3 2023-04-09 jammy-oibaf-ppa).

THAT WAS IT! Now all the transition effects work perfectly without crashing my system. 

So the problem was a combination of my GPU (Radeon 5600XT) + mesa drivers.
Comment 2 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-04-11 09:45:03 UTC 
Thank you for testing further and reporting back. Glad the issue is fixed!