Bug 170169 - LO 25.8.4 Writer hangs on MacOS while saving (Repagination likely)
Summary: LO 25.8.4 Writer hangs on MacOS while saving (Repagination likely)
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.4.2 release
Hardware: ARM macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2025-12-30 02:37 UTC by shahrv
Modified: 2026-01-29 10:24 UTC (History)
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Description shahrv 2025-12-30 02:37:47 UTC
Description:
Installed latest LO yesterday. Today i open my file and LO hangs, have to Force Quit. But i cannot do any work. It seems that saving the file hangs. And auto-save hangs.
Here is the beginning of report that Force Quit generated, but i did NOT send to Apple:

Date/Time:        2025-12-30 07:39:21.700 +0530
End time:         2025-12-30 07:39:23.372 +0530
OS Version:       macOS 26.2 (Build 25C56)
Architecture:     arm64e
Report Version:   67
Incident Identifier: 7E3CA6C8-7BBF-4765-9826-D33007C7FC1D

Data Source:      Stackshots
Shared Cache:     ACB998B6-263C-3634-B0A8-AE8270A116C2 slid base address 0x190894000, slide 0x10894000 (System Primary)
Shared Cache:     DF86E129-38B3-3A55-92F1-747C17DE0FC7 slid base address 0x188664000, slide 0x8664000 (DriverKit)
Shared Cache:     068332B5-70DD-387C-9D28-14DF021F716F slid base address 0x7ff81107c000, slide 0x1107c000 (Rosetta)

Command:          soffice
Path:             /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice
Identifier:       org.libreoffice.script
Version:          25.8.4.2 (25.8.4.2)
Team ID:          7P5S3ZLCN7
Is First Party:   No
Beta Identifier:  10164417-110C-5377-BC16-2D7D3C4749F1
Architecture:     arm64
PID:              22244
Time Since Fork:  762s

Event:            hang
Duration:         1.67s
Steps:            17 (100ms sampling interval)

Hardware model:   Mac14,15
Active cpus:      8
Memory size:      8 GB
HW page size:     16384
VM page size:     16384
Shared cache residency: 6.58% (346.97 MB / 5273.92 MB)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open my long password protected document
2.Make any changes
3.Wait for it auto-save and it hangs
OR
3. Click save icon

Actual Results:
Spinning wheel

Expected Results:
Saved the file


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Cannot work, will have to figure out how to go back to earlier release
Comment 1 shahrv 2026-01-01 20:18:34 UTC
Same hanging behavior in 26.2.beta1

The status on the bottom left says 'Repagination...'
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2026-01-23 14:50:37 UTC
@shahrv: can you please provide a minimum example so that we can try and reproduce on our own systems ?

For example:

- which kind of document and which format (native LO, or exported format of some kind) ?

- is the problem contingent on the use or absence of a password ?

- is the problem reproducible with a 2-page document that is password protected ?

- are there any other particular features of your document that might give rise to an issue, e.g. sections, tables, images, frames, headers, footers, etc ?
Comment 3 shahrv 2026-01-23 16:58:30 UTC
- which kind of document and which format (native LO, or exported format of some kind) ?

My doc is .odt native

- is the problem contingent on the use or absence of a password ?

My doc has a password

- is the problem reproducible with a 2-page document that is password protected ?

Hard to reproduc now because i went back to 25.8.3.2 after upgrading to the beta

- are there any other particular features of your document that might give rise to an issue, e.g. sections, tables, images, frames, headers, footers, etc ?

My document is long, ~180 pages A5, has TOC plus illustration index, sections, images with titles, headers (odd-even), footers, footnotes
Comment 4 Alex Thurgood 2026-01-23 17:55:18 UTC
(In reply to shahrv from comment #3)

Thanks for the further information, but we won't be able to try and reproduce the problem without a test document, both with, and without a password.

From personal experience, LO on macOS is not the most stable of applications, and will crash or, more frequently, hang seemingly randomly without necessarily being able to easily determine why (from the user's point of view). This is why we need as much as detail as possible.

Given that you have gone back to an earlier version which doesn't exhibit the undesirable behaviour, it will be difficult for anyone to confirm this bug report.