Zotero crashes when trying to update modified citations, Libreoffice

lejocelynb
Hi,

Note that I'm using Zotero 5.0.61 and Libreoffice 6.1.5.2 on Fedora 29.

I have an .odt document, If I insert a citation and modify the inserted citation, whenever Zotero tries to update the citations' document, LibreOffice crashes.

I'm not sure whether it is a Libreoffice or Zotero issue, any idea ?
  • adomasven
    Try updating LibreOffice. Does it happen in a new document?
  • lejocelynb
    Yes, it happens with new documents (as well as with old documents :).

    It's the last version available in the Fedora repository. Should I give it a try with the latest version of Libreoffice provided with Flatpack ?
  • adomasven
    Yes, you should. This is not a general issue and most likely caused either by the version of LibreOffice you run or problems in dependencies of LibreOffice in your distro.
  • lejocelynb
    I'll report this to Fedora then. But how do you know? So that I can fill a more precise bug report for Fedora.
  • lejocelynb
    Reported :
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1688704
  • adomasven
    The Zotero add-on runs in LibreOffice fully, within an embedded Java Runtime, and we do not have general crashing reports on other distros or version of LO. Zotero only communicates to the extension via a HTTP socket and do not directly affect the running instance of LibreOffice, so this would be up to LO or Fedora to address.
  • lejocelynb
    Well the latest release of Zotero, 5.0.72, fixed this issue, while no other components were updated. According to the update log, many corrections were made on the way Zotero stores bib ref in a file.

    I guess it was an issue was coming from Zotero in the end, and not from Libreoffice and Fedora.
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