On opening Help from the menu or pressing F1, Writer crashes with and without any open document. Calc (Spreadsheet) crashes on pressing F1 Database crashes on pressing F1 Formula crashes on pressing F1 Impress and Draw open Help window normally.
It could be a duplication of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32816 Simply keep it open in case: 1. this is reproducible 2. we want to deal with the problem separately for each component
Peace! On installing LibreOffice directly in Ubuntu 10.10 from the ppa, the bug disappeared. The bug was present on installing from the debian package