Bug 168500 - Infinite loop of dialog spawning when opening Spelling in Impress
Summary: Infinite loop of dialog spawning when opening Spelling in Impress
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
26.2.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All All
: high normal
Assignee: Michael Weghorn
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.2.0
Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-09-21 13:32 UTC by Buovjaga
Modified: 2025-10-06 15:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Buovjaga 2025-09-21 13:32:18 UTC
1. Open Impress
2. Click Spelling from toolbar

The dialog asking to continue keeps popping up forever and you have to kill the process with Ctrl-C from terminal.

Bibisected with linux-64-26.2 to 94442bd94e504b067efd0b992525b53fc660f114
tdf#163802 a11y: Fully initialize SpellDialog before showing
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2025-09-21 14:06:34 UTC
Also repro on Win.
Comment 2 Michael Weghorn 2025-09-22 07:08:29 UTC
I can reproduce with gtk3 or gen, but not qt6.

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: acc85023fd2c296b096567d0b9e73a486efe4d4d
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: acc85023fd2c296b096567d0b9e73a486efe4d4d
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: x11
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: acc85023fd2c296b096567d0b9e73a486efe4d4d
CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.16; UI render: default; VCL: qt6 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Michael Weghorn 2025-10-06 08:04:11 UTC
Pending fix: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/191950
Comment 4 Commit Notification 2025-10-06 15:20:09 UTC
Michael Weghorn committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/184bc3cdb8c47c238cd640c18b799e30bf93c625

tdf#168500 sfx2: Prevent recursion when creating child win

It will be available in 26.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.