Bug 36631 - Writer crashes when using undo-redo on formula
Summary: Writer crashes when using undo-redo on formula
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.2 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium critical
Assignee: Caolán McNamara
URL:
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Blocks: mab3.4
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Reported: 2011-04-27 05:51 UTC by Alexander Karatarakis
Modified: 2012-05-04 00:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
Example of Crash case (28.66 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2011-04-28 09:55 UTC, Alexander Karatarakis
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Description Alexander Karatarakis 2011-04-27 05:51:58 UTC
To reproduce: 

1) Have 2 formulas on writer
2) Copy one formula and paste it on the other, replacing it
3) Click Undo
4) Click Redo

At this point writer crashes.
Comment 1 Alexander Karatarakis 2011-04-27 06:13:25 UTC
Just noticed that you don't even have to overwrite another formula, so to reproduce

1) Have 1 formula on writer
2) Copy the formula and paste it somewhere
3) Click Undo
4) Click Redo

At this point writer crashes.
Comment 2 gleppert 2011-04-28 08:05:29 UTC
I have just tested the crash scenario on my computer and I cannot confirm the crash. Could you please attach a test document where you can always reproduce the bug?

Tested LibreOffice 3.3.2 PPA on Ubuntu 10.10/Gnome 32-Bit Intel
Comment 3 Alexander Karatarakis 2011-04-28 09:55:25 UTC
Created attachment 46140 [details]
Example of Crash case

Attached test case. Pick any of the formulas(there are 4) in the odt, it crashes with any one of them. 

LibreOffice 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) 64-bit. 
Help-About also says:
OOO330m19(Build:202)
tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4
Comment 4 gleppert 2011-04-28 10:29:22 UTC
Thank you Alexander for the attached example document. As you described, Writer crashes. 

Reproducible: Always

Severity of bug changed to "critical"

(additional remark: it crashes, if only the formula (with the green marking around) is selected. It does not crash if any blank or other letter is copied together with the formula)

Tested LibreOffice 3.3.2 PPA on Ubuntu 10.10/Gnome 32-Bit Intel
Comment 5 gleppert 2011-05-22 01:24:17 UTC
I just tested this bug in LO 3.4rc1 and the problem is still there. Writer always crashes by performing these steps described in comment 1.
Comment 6 gleppert 2011-05-22 14:35:21 UTC
I uploaded the strace.log to this bug/crash. You can find it here:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla-Attachments#Bug_36631_-_Writer_crashes_when_using_undo-redo_on_formula
Comment 7 Petr Mladek 2011-05-23 08:27:28 UTC
I have reproduced it with LO-3.4.0-rc1.

It looks quite annoying => added to the 3.4 most annoying bugs.
Comment 8 Jan Holesovsky 2011-06-08 00:07:37 UTC
It is accessing an already deleted object.  The following seems to work that around:

diff --git a/sw/source/core/layout/fly.cxx b/sw/source/core/layout/fly.cxx
index 47cb131..4c30a91 100644
--- a/sw/source/core/layout/fly.cxx
+++ b/sw/source/core/layout/fly.cxx
@@ -547,8 +547,8 @@ void SwFlyFrm::FinitDrawObj()
     }
     GetVirtDrawObj()->SetUserCall( 0 ); //Ruft sonst Delete des ContactObj
     delete GetVirtDrawObj();                   //Meldet sich selbst beim Master ab.
-    if ( pMyContact )
-        delete pMyContact;             //zerstoert den Master selbst.
+//    if ( pMyContact )
+//        delete pMyContact;           //zerstoert den Master selbst.
 }
 
 /*************************************************************************

But it is not a fix - I suppose the pMyContact should instead get to the undo/redo stack, or something, instead of leaking that.

I cannot continue on this one at the moment - if anybody can take over, I'd appreciate that! :-)
Comment 9 Caolán McNamara 2011-07-27 04:25:52 UTC
Hmm, my initial expectation, without looking into the code here yet, would be that the SdrObjects created by writer to integrate their own frames into the drawing layer would be torn down and recreated from scratch on undo/redo. So the entry of the contact SdrObject into the undo might be the real bug here.
Comment 10 Caolán McNamara 2011-07-27 07:06:25 UTC
lets cut off those entries into the drawing undo stack of operations on the connector drawing object when a SwFlyFrmFmt insert is triggered (used by these type of classic writer SwFlyFrmFmts to hook themselves into the drawing layer if I'm not horribly behind the current state-of-the-art)

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/writer/commit/?id=c234df7779b0e43e4433e71933c22f9e703da735

As an aside: restoration of the title and description of the SwFlyFrmFmt is *already* missing on the insert->delete->undo non-crashing route, so insert->undo->redo remains equivalent to insert->delete->undo in lossage. Presumably the SwUndoInsLayFmt itself should be the one that saves/restores the title and description of the object.
Comment 11 Roman Eisele 2012-05-04 00:34:27 UTC
This is a Writer issue, therefore changed 'Component' accordingly.