Bug 82115 - Repeatable crash/hang entering Japanese into a Writer comment on OSX ( see comment 4 )
Summary: Repeatable crash/hang entering Japanese into a Writer comment on OSX ( see co...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: Other macOS (All)
: medium critical
Assignee: Patrick (volunteer)
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.5.0 target:7.4.4
Keywords: haveBacktrace
Depends on:
Blocks: macOS-UI-polish CJK CJK-Japanese
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Reported: 2014-08-04 04:17 UTC by Matthew Francis
Modified: 2023-05-15 08:42 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Core dump from the crash (80.94 KB, text/plain)
2014-08-04 04:17 UTC, Matthew Francis
Details
video (1.89 MB, video/mp4)
2014-08-11 06:49 UTC, retired
Details
Updated backtrace (8.05 KB, text/plain)
2014-08-11 10:21 UTC, Matthew Francis
Details
bt with symbols (11.38 KB, text/rtf)
2016-06-26 09:36 UTC, Julien Nabet
Details

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Description Matthew Francis 2014-08-04 04:17:13 UTC
Created attachment 103972 [details]
Core dump from the crash

On OSX 10.9.4 / LO 4.3.0.4 release:

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a new Writer document
2. Insert a comment
3. Within the comment, start typing any Japanese text with the 'Kotoeri' - 'Hiragana' input method. For instance, 'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' (which will produce the text 'ああああああああああああああ')
4. Without confirming the input conversion (i.e. without pressing 'Return'), select a new font from the font dropdown
5. Either a crash will occur at this point (see attached backtrace), or a hang when the next Japanese text is input


This appears to be specific to comments - I have not observed the same crash occuring in the body of the document
Comment 1 Matthew Francis 2014-08-04 04:41:32 UTC
Additional note:

When the above results in a hang rather than a crash (i.e. when the font selection is initially successful rather than crashing immediately), I notice that the text that is being entered is deselected, indicating that the input conversion has been aborted

When doing the same thing in the main document text, the text remains selected, and the conversion is not aborted, so the font can be changed in mid entry. This should also be possible in a comment

* I've just spotted a coincidental but probably(?) unrelated issue; in the main document, when changing the font while a Japanese input conversion is open, the font is correctly applied to the whole text of the input, but *only when the next character is entered*. Raised separately as bug 82116
Comment 2 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2014-08-05 05:46:05 UTC
Hi Matthew,

Thanks for this new bug and crash report. Adding the Mac QA team to confirm.
Comment 3 retired 2014-08-05 09:35:26 UTC
Hi, to reproduce I'd need to know how to "start typing any Japanese text with the 'Kotoeri' - 'Hiragana' input method". Sorry I've not once in my life used those method - whatever they may be.
Comment 4 Matthew Francis 2014-08-05 11:04:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Hi, to reproduce I'd need to know how to "start typing any Japanese text
> with the 'Kotoeri' - 'Hiragana' input method". Sorry I've not once in my
> life used those method - whatever they may be.

In OSX 10.9 it's like this: (earlier OSX may be slightly different)

1. Open "System Preferences" from the Apple menu
2. Select "Keyboard"
3. Select the "Input Sources" tab at the top of "Keyboard"
4. Click on the "+" button at the bottom left to add a new input source
5. Select "Japanese" on the left, then "Kotoeri" on the right and click on "Add"
6. Back in the "Keyboard" - "Input Sources" tab, make sure that at least "Input modes:" "Hiragana" is enabled in the Kotoeri options (this should be enabled by default)
7. At the bottom of "Keyboard" - "Input Sources", make sure that "Show Input menu in menu bar" is enabled (again, probably enabled by default)

To test:
1. Open a Writer document
2. With the writer document focused, open the input menu, which is an icon somewhere on the right side of the system menu bar, and select the option that looks like "あ Hiragana"
3. Type some "aaa"s, which should appear as "あああ"

At this point, you should be pre-editing some Japanese. What would normally happen next is that you either press "Space" to convert the phonetic text you've entered (a popup will appear at the cursor with some options), and/or "Return" to accept the text as it is currently. While in the pre-editing mode, the text at the cursor that the input method is handling is underlined, and in the case of LO also appears as selected text in the document

Reproducing the bug involves changing the font while the pre-editing mode is open within a comment, before pressing "Return" to confirm/exit.
Comment 5 retired 2014-08-11 06:48:37 UTC
Confirmed:OSX:4.3.0.4

-> NEW

Thanks Matthew for making this idiot proof description (Comment 4, and then back to initial Description).

I was able to reproduce the crash. Attaching a video (not too much too see - instead of mouse pointer, I was seeing the psycho pizza of death, after changing the font to "Bauhaus 93"). Interestingly the crash did not occur, when I changed the font to Times New Roman.

Crash log not attached, since we have that from Matthew already.
Comment 6 retired 2014-08-11 06:49:50 UTC
Created attachment 104410 [details]
video
Comment 7 Matthew Francis 2014-08-11 10:20:51 UTC
It looks like the originally attached backtrace actually related to the now fixed bug 82260 - the traces seem identical.

The issue that Foss successfully reproduced is however still present in git (which I have now built), and under a development build gives a rather different backtrace, which I will attach.
Comment 8 Matthew Francis 2014-08-11 10:21:54 UTC
Created attachment 104421 [details]
Updated backtrace
Comment 9 Matthew Francis 2015-01-19 05:30:55 UTC
Occurs all the way back to 3.3.0 (and still in 4.4.0.2)

Setting Version to "Inherited from OOo"
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2016-02-21 08:36:37 UTC Comment hidden (noise)
Comment 11 Julien Nabet 2016-06-26 08:58:18 UTC
Any better with recent LO version? (last one is 5.1.4)
Comment 12 Julien Nabet 2016-06-26 09:21:03 UTC
With master sources updated yesterday, I could reproduce the hang.
Comment 13 Julien Nabet 2016-06-26 09:36:36 UTC
Created attachment 125911 [details]
bt with symbols
Comment 14 QA Administrators 2017-09-01 11:18:16 UTC Comment hidden (noise)
Comment 15 eisa01 2018-03-10 13:03:53 UTC
Had to try a couple times, but managed to reproduce this when changing the font to Bauhaus 93 as mentioned in comment #5

This is a niche data loss bug, so raising importance to critical
Comment 16 Julien Nabet 2019-05-29 13:59:04 UTC
I don't have a Mac anymore, could someone give it a try with last LO version 6.2.4 ?
Comment 17 eisa01 2019-06-08 10:58:14 UTC
Still occurs as of builds two months ago (no nightly builds available for download)

Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: ea9c13be02ba731074fa4207944ff7df40a0fb5c
CPU threads: 2; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx; 
TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-04-10_20:43:17
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 18 Julien Nabet 2019-11-11 10:06:53 UTC
Matthew/eisa01: would you be interested in building LO code so we may:
- an up-to-date stacktrace
- add some patches to try to debug (I can submit patches to add some traces and you'd retrieve them so your build would show even more info)
?
Of course, it may help for other MacOs bugs.
If yes, you can take a look at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnMac
You must know that few LO devs use Macs and since it concerns CJK bugs, I think (I may be wrong) there's even less chance to have some update here.

Alex: do you still have some pb to build? If yes, perhaps we may ping Tor?
Comment 19 eisa01 2020-05-03 11:16:54 UTC
Still occuring

1. Create a new comment
2. Type aaa (in Hiragana)
3. Select the text aaa
4. Change font
5. Click after the aaa text
4. Press enter -> Crash

Version: 6.4.3.5
Build ID: 4db9852e73d9e9d662fc8a2783bace79addf1805
CPU threads: 4; OS: Mac OS X 10.14.6; UI render: default; VCL: osx; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 20 QA Administrators 2022-05-04 03:50:30 UTC Comment hidden (noise)
Comment 21 Patrick (volunteer) 2022-12-06 23:23:06 UTC
I have posted a patch that fixes this bug:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/143619

The patch needs still needs to be reviewed and tested before it appears in a nightly build. Are there any people who have a macOS LibreOffice build that can test the patch?

Overall, the patch commits any uncommitted text when one or more of the following events occur:

- The focused window changes
- A menu item is selected
- Text is entered with the Command key pressed
Comment 22 Commit Notification 2022-12-08 09:32:41 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/60d2dd11a73bf7a1269896f15b1ec7c98507571e

Related: tdf#82115 Fix crash when handling input method events

It will be available in 7.5.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 23 Commit Notification 2022-12-08 09:33:44 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/9ee57f36e26373ee7144d076c93c3462c4fc7110

tdf#82115 Commit uncommitted text when a popup menu is opened

It will be available in 7.5.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 24 Commit Notification 2022-12-08 10:59:58 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-4":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/b542092be87b889b58ae95a2d1838a4ee520cabf

tdf#82115 Commit uncommitted text when a popup menu is opened

It will be available in 7.4.4.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 25 Commit Notification 2022-12-08 11:38:03 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-4":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/9e79476499718fa802cd725cdd4aaa4b3b1f9d29

Related: tdf#82115 Fix crash when handling input method events

It will be available in 7.4.4.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 26 Patrick (volunteer) 2022-12-08 13:24:47 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 27 Patrick (volunteer) 2022-12-08 13:38:52 UTC
Resetting status back to "resolved". The following patch *did* get committed last night so it should be available in the next nightly build.
Comment 28 Timothy Ferriss 2023-05-12 07:13:56 UTC Comment hidden (spam)