34695 – Contribute concrete hints concerning problems with document instead of "General Error"

Bug 34695 - Contribute concrete hints concerning problems with document instead of "General Error"

Summary: Contribute concrete hints concerning problems with document instead of "Gener...

Status:	NEW

Alias:	None

Product:	LibreOffice
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version: (earliest affected)	3.3.1 release
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	medium enhancement
Assignee:	Not Assigned

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Blocks:	Error-Messages
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Reported:	2011-02-24 22:19 UTC by Rainer Bielefeld Retired
Modified:	2017-05-20 19:48 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-02-24 22:19:13 UTC

Created attachment 43779 [details]
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I found this with "LibreOffice 3.3.1  – WIN7  Home Premium  (64bit) German UI [OOO330m19 (build 8 / tag 3.3.1.2)]" during my investigations for 
Bug 34693 - FILESAVE: Particular .doc destroyed after saved as RTF file

OOo 1.1.4 gives an useful Error message helping to find the reasons for the problem

Comment 1 Don't use this account, use tml@iki.fi 2011-03-08 00:45:53 UTC

Yes, we know very well that in many occasions LibreOffice (or recent OpenOffice.org versions) gives extremely unhelpful error messages, like "General Error". It is extremely annoying.

Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:45:27 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html

Comment 3 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 13:58:51 UTC

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 4 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:00:05 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 5 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:04:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 6 Florian Reisinger 2012-08-14 14:06:51 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)

Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian

Comment 7 sasha.libreoffice 2012-08-24 09:46:03 UTC

reproduced in 3.6.0 on Fedora 64 bit

Comment 8 Robert Roth 2013-01-27 22:54:36 UTC

*** Bug 40821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***