LibreOffice 4.2 Beta 2 for MacOS X 10.9 freezes when saving any change in the Preferences (Options) windows. The problem happens with 32 and 64 bit versions, and you have to kill the program using Force Quit. Tested on two different MacBook, with different processors. To reproduce, launch LibreOffice, open a document (even a new one), open the Preference window, change one of the options in one of the panels (I tried with several combinations), hit Save to apply the change. The cursor does not change shape for a few seconds, then changes to the multi-colour wheel and stays as such forever (until you force quit the program).
Hi Italo, thanks for reporting the problem. No problem on Ubuntu. Might be Mac-specific? Cheers, Cor
Mmh, can't reproduce this one. Tested using Mac OSX 10.9 with a mid 2010 Macbook Pro 13". @Foss: any chance to reproduce this one :)?
After a clean install of LO 4.2 Beta 2, I managed to find the culprit, and was able to reproduce the problem on Windows too. The freeze happens when you change a path in the Path section of the Options (Preferences in MacOS). I tried to change the Template path, and when I pushed OK the program froze. On Windows, I waited several hours, without any result. Tested on MacOS 10.9 and Windows 7, same behaviour on both OS.
Confirmed on OS X 10.9 LO Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 5e01904de993caa3d497a8f6c82a846336e70eef TinderBox: MacOSX-x86@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2013-12-06_02:05:01
*** Bug 72406 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
pls see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72406#c4 too
Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=56211a166ab25d80de84c2cccce22be15a9be051 fdo#72394 Don't endlessly expand $(share_subdir_name) into itself The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f04cb4f73121710503884e24aeed27178601888a&h=libreoffice-4-2 fdo#72394 Don't endlessly expand $(share_subdir_name) into itself It will be available in LibreOffice 4.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.