Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 73654
Opening supplied wordfile crashes OOo
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:22:26 UTC
Hello! The following wordfile: http://www.actutem.com/trad/Modulation num V1.2.doc cannot be opened with OOo. It opens OK with Word (I have written it myself) and I am changing now to OOo... however I cannot open this specific file which even shuts down completely OOo (all other wordfiles opens Ok with OOo). Regards and many thanks Otto
Confirming with both m197 and m199 on WinXP - Writer crashes. temcom01, if possible, please provide file without spaces in it's name so that it is simplier to download the file for local examination.
Created attachment 42315 [details] Document from the upper mentioned link
MRU->HBRINKM: there seems to be something wrong during the import process; it stalls right at the end of the progress.
Confirmed OOo V2.1 Windows XP SP2
I can confirm the problem on my machine which is running Windows XP SP2 with OOo v2.1. I did some testing with the file posted and here are my discoveries; -I copied and pasted the whole posted file to a new word file (and saved the file). The first thing I noticed was that the new document I created was 47 pages long as apposed to the original document which was 44 pages long. I then attempted to open the original document with OOo, the file seem to have loaded 1/4 before OOo crashed. I attempted to open the new word file in OOo and it started loading but crashed near the end of the loading cycle. -I then created a new word file only copying and pasting the 1st two pages of the original posted file and saved the document. I then opened the new in OOo and the document loaded fine. After some more testing I found that if one were to copy and paste the 1st 13 pages of the original document into a new word document, save the document, and open the document in OOo, OOo will load the document without crashing. I also found that if I were to copy and paste pages 13-14 into a new word file, save the file, and open that file with OOo, OOo would crash. I also noticed that copying those two pages from the original document and pasting then in a new word file provided me with 3 full pages as apposed to two pages, where the second page of the new document was a full blank page.
I am running Windows XP SP2 with OpenOffice 2.1 installed. I tried opening the supplied file in writer and it crashed. After trimming the size of the file (44 pages) I was able to narrow down the problem to the epsilon type symbol on the first line of page 14. The character/picture right after "avec a". The word file I'm attaching contains just that character and it will crash open writer.
Created attachment 42660 [details] this doc file contains an epsilon type symbol / picture only
“I crashed each time when I opened the attached word document using the Open- Office 2.0.3 and 2.1 build on Windows XP Home Edition and Professional Edition (Service Pack 2). When I tried to open any other normal word text-based and a considerable small document of any .doc/.odt format on Windows XP Home and Professional Editions (Service Pack 2) I was able to load the document without any problem. I was also able to open the same attached word document using the Open-Office 2.0.3 and 2.1 build when I rebooted into Linux Content OS Release 4.4, and opened this document using the (Kernel Red 2.6.9-42.03.EL.CSE.smp) Linux build without any problems or crashes.”
Hello, many thanks to all for your help. I have used small black/white gif images (6x9 pixels) with math - caracters and other symbols not so easy available in Text. However I have cleared up my text.. a douzend different symbols.. and replaced them with "special" caracters : it works now fine with OOo which is just great! So the patch seems to be : do not use very small gifs in a textfile ;-)
target 3.0
Confirmed on OOo 3 beta on Windows XP. Does not crash on Linux (tested with DEV300 m6 and m13).
works for me in DEV300_m11
closed
Reopening as issue still reproducible with attached 73654.doc - crashes both 3.0.0 released and m30 (build 9345).
set target
I can reproduce the crash under Windows Vista 64 bit / OOo 3.0 final I sent a crash report ASAP
set target: 3.0 is released, 3.0.1 code freeze has passed
works for me in DEV300_m35
m35/WS2003 still crashes for me. Reopening.
73654.doc still crashes m47 on WinXP.
Created attachment 64264 [details] minimal example file causing the crash
Analysis: Loaded minimal.doc and stepped through code while loading. Crash happens in SwWW8ImplReader::CoreLoad when calling ::EndProgress.
Works for me on DEV300_m70
m71 on WinXP still crashes opening both 73654.doc and minimal.doc, reopening.
OS: Can you help me debugging this? I can only reproduce on Windows.
changed owner, changed target to OOo 3.4
This issue has been fixed now in cws[impress198] (only happening on windows platform if 1 bit graphics are having a palette with more than 2 colors).
sj->wg: this issue is ready to be verified in cws[impress198]
Verified in CWS.