Bug 167405 - crash collapse a heading
Summary: crash collapse a heading
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.4.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2025-07-07 01:00 UTC by jack maney
Modified: 2025-07-12 05:00 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
my document on which Writer crashes (182.14 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2025-07-07 01:07 UTC, jack maney
Details

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Description jack maney 2025-07-07 01:00:17 UTC
Description:
your web site never loaded  https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/crash_details/79fe5fb1-ff0b-41d6-87d0-faae5a387d5b
How can I say which ver of LO while it has crashed again? 24.8 is all I can see

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open my Writer file 
2.Try to collapse a heading
3. It crashes immediately

Actual Results:
It closes immediately, no msg. 
When I try again I get the crash report msg. But the report is not there.
BTW it is very upsetting that the user can't copy text out of that msg.

Expected Results:
should not crash, but if so provide the report on your web site.
login for that also should have been = my LO login.
Your entire bug process is much too hard. Even for an old-time PC jock. Now I am just trying to write a novel and have no time for crashes.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
How do you think I can see that when it just crashed and I am trying to see the bug report?
Version: 25.2.4.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 33e196637044ead23f5c3226cde09b47731f7e27
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

LO Writer must hate my .dot files because it has crashed or lost text so many times. Not just now. It must not crash on files it created.

FYI your help does not tell me what is in my user profile. NO WAY I would reset my profile if that loses my .dic, preferences, etc. 

I tried restarting in safe mode, but that disabled folding headings, which is what created the crash. So I can't recreate it to see if it is gone.
Comment 1 jack maney 2025-07-07 01:07:18 UTC
Created attachment 201680 [details]
my document on which Writer crashes
Comment 2 jack maney 2025-07-07 01:08:55 UTC
The real goal is to stop crashing on my file, but I could not even open the crash report on your site.
Comment 3 BogdanB 2025-07-07 04:22:21 UTC
Some observations:
- it seems you are using 25.2.4 from that bug report
- you are using .doc for your documents (is a binary file format used by Microsoft Word for storing documents. History: It was the standard format for Word versions up to 2003. We are in 2025)
- please give me some details how to reproduce your bug, for example I dont understand how can I colapse your headings....
Comment 4 Telesto 2025-07-07 13:35:18 UTC
This bug sounds pretty similar to bug 166713
Comment 5 jack maney 2025-07-11 22:54:50 UTC
The attached file may have started as an .rtf, but for a couple of years has been in *Writer .dot format only*. Never .doc. I don't even have MS Word available.
Makes me wonder what is going on in the file.
The crashes occurred with  
Options | LibreOffice Writer | View | Outline Folding 
set to: show outline folding buttons, Include sub levels
And with the Styles pulldown removed from the Formatting toolbar next to the Font pulldown.
The file uses paragraph folding to collapse some sections while I work on others. You will see some sections folded (minimized, collapsed) ending with Games.  Then Warps which is expanded. Crashes occurred when I clicked to the left of the word Warps to fold (collapse) it.
This happened up to a dozen times and sent a crash report every time.

I later tried some more things to use my file, including showing the Styles pulldown. Now my file seems OK again. Go figure.
Comment 6 raal 2025-07-12 05:00:18 UTC
No crash in Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 20667acbca5df17771a3581632a672d5db4e751b
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded