Bug 169398 - Impress crashes when pasting a table copied from chatGPT
Summary: Impress crashes when pasting a table copied from chatGPT
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: high major
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: bibisected, bisected, regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-11-12 10:04 UTC by jose.velez
Modified: 2025-11-19 15:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description jose.velez 2025-11-12 10:04:44 UTC
Description:
When a table is copied from ChatGPT using the “Copy table” button and then pasted into a LibreOffice Impress slide, the application crashes immediately.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to ChatGPT in Firefox, Chrome or Safary
2.Ask ChatGPT to generate a small table (for example: “Can you generate a little table with random data?”).
3.Click the Copy table button (located at the top-right corner of the table).
4.Open LibreOffice Impress and create a new empty slide.
5.Paste the clipboard content into the slide using Ctrl+V.
6.Observe that Impress crashes.

Actual Results:
Impress crashes immediately after pasting the content.

Expected Results:
The table should be pasted correctly, or at least handled gracefully without crashing.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 25.8.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 580(Build:2)
CPU threads: 20; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: es-ES (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Ubuntu package version: 4:25.8.2~rc2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~lo1
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2025-11-12 10:16:22 UTC
Reproduced in

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fdcc566a017e1b107723b8b40a18088e19a31f04
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: es-ES (es_ES.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2025-11-12 10:23:21 UTC
Not reproduced in

Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 6f227b0dd912d4c70a01eb3872fff15d52de543a
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: es-ES (es_ES.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Xisco Faulí 2025-11-12 19:38:26 UTC
Regression introduced by:

commit 6a36c75fae892edcfd058abf9fd075216573c330	[log]
author	Oliver Specht <oliver.specht@cib.de>	Thu Feb 01 11:06:02 2024 +0100
committer	Thorsten Behrens <thorsten.behrens@allotropia.de>	Fri Jun 14 11:18:38 2024 +0200
tree b28d6ab72f09054b0a92cb518c12671491ecf323
parent 0e33dff4252f3124c7ecc591befa56f0fb0e1895 [diff]

prefer simple HTML format over RTF while pasting clipboard content

Bisected with: bibisect-linux64-25.2
Comment 4 Oliver Specht (CIB) 2025-11-13 06:24:40 UTC
Does not seem to be easily reproducible on Windows here. 
On the other hand here on Chrome/Windows an RTF format is not even added to the clipboard. 
Can anybody provide a stack trace?
Comment 5 rram 2025-11-16 22:29:16 UTC
Hello jose.velez@urjc.es,

I followed your instructions and was unable to reproduce the issue on either the dev or live version of LibreOffice Impress. Although I did notice the table formatting was lost when pasted into Impress, I'm not sure if that is relevant to the cause of the issue. I'm using Windows 10, so I suspect this may be a Linux-specific issue.

Version: 25.8.3.2 (X86_64)
Build ID: 8ca8d55c161d602844f5428fa4b58097424e324e
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 620(Build:0)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (build 19045); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 6 Regina Henschel 2025-11-19 15:54:15 UTC
I cannot reproduce the problem. There is not even an RTF item in the clipboard (inspected with "Free Clipboard Viewer 4.0"). I have tested Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

I have used a debug build Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 68c9642382330a543ba178ad36afe99457033d05
CPU threads: 32; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded