Created attachment 53192 [details]
sample

Confirming also with 2.4 on WinXP - Office hungs and has to be killed via Task 
Manager.
Keyword, priority.

Also happens with 2.4.0 on Debian unstable.

I ran strace to see what the process does. One of the child processes is in a loop:
[pid  8142] poll( <unfinished ...>
[pid  8138] gettimeofday({1209139548, 172095}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8138] gettimeofday({1209139548, 172228}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8142] <... poll resumed> [{fd=27, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 0
[pid  8142] gettimeofday({1209139548, 248816}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8142] poll([{fd=27, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 0
[pid  8142] gettimeofday({1209139549, 248720}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8142] poll([{fd=27, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 0
[pid  8142] gettimeofday({1209139550, 248708}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8142] poll( <unfinished ...>
[pid  8143] <... futex resumed> )       = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)
[pid  8143] gettimeofday({1209139551, 204714}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8143] futex(0xb72ed1e0, 0x81 /* FUTEX_??? */, 1) = 0
[pid  8143] clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1209139551, 204993734}) = 0
[pid  8143] futex(0xb72ed344, 0x80 /* FUTEX_??? */, 9 <unfinished ...>
[pid  8142] <... poll resumed> [{fd=27, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 0
[pid  8142] gettimeofday({1209139551, 284725}, NULL) = 0
[pid  8142] poll([{fd=27, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 0
[pid  8142] gettimeofday({1209139552, 284712}, NULL) = 0

@AMA: please dispatch to the competent developper.

Created attachment 53823 [details]
backtrace

This is not an import filter error, this is looping during layout. see attached
backtrace on DEV300 m13 on Linux.

ama->od:
Loop is caused by abuse of the 'keep with next' attribute for paragraphs and
tables. The keeping objects does not fit onto one page, they need several pages.

Work-around:
Open new writer document, insert bugdoc via insert/file

Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".