plugin crashes openoffice/ Report-ID: 962910902

edgarkls
The System: Linux OpenSuse 11.2, OpenOffice 3.11, Firefox 3.5.3, Sun Java 1.6.0_15

Inserting a bibliography into an OpenOffice document crashes OpenOffice immediately.
  • edgarkls
    Oh, and that is what OpenOffice has to say about it when it crashes:

    QPixmap: It is not safe to use pixmaps outside the GUI thread
    QPixmap: It is not safe to use pixmaps outside the GUI thread
    QPixmap: It is not safe to use pixmaps outside the GUI thread
    QPainter::begin: Cannot paint on a null pixmap
    ..........
    ..........

    X-Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
    Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
    Resource ID: 0x0
    Serial No: 26346 (26346)
    These errors are reported asynchronously,
    set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging
  • edgarkls
    This is actually quite annoying. Have to use mendeley untiil a solution comes up.
  • edgarkls
    And this is the report-id:

    962910902
  • Simon
    edited October 4, 2009
    As far as I can tell, openSuSE 11.2 isn't released. OOo 3.0.0 under openSuSE 11.1 has worked perfectly in our testing, as has OOo 3.1.1 on other platforms. I'm going to install the latest 11.2 milestone in VMWare later today and see if I can figure out what's wrong, but it's quite possible that there's a bug in the package.
  • Simon
    edited October 4, 2009
    This is a bug in the Qt VCL plug-in, which SuSE installs by default. It's also a problem under Karmic in Kubuntu, for any others on the bleeding edge. On SuSE, if you move the file /usr/lib/ooo3/basis3.1/program/libvclplug_kde4lx.so (/usr/lib/ooo3/basis3.1/program/libvclplug_kde4lx.so on a 64-bit system) to another directory, the problem is fixed, although OOo might look a little uglier for it.
  • edgarkls
    You are right, OpenSuse 11.2 will only be released in November 2009. I am currently testing the release for potential use in our offices from January 2010 on. I have renamed the Qt VCL plug-in, and everything works like a charm again. Thanks!
  • edgarkls
    arghhh.... the celebration was a bit premature. After moving /usr/lib64/ooo3/program/libvclplug_kde4lx.so to another directory, openoffice loses the ability to open, close or save (both, simple save and save as) files. Any attempt to initiate one of these actions results in an immediate crash.
  • edgarkls
    reported as bug:

    https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544897
  • edgarkls
    fixed in OpenSuse 11.2 RC1. I don't know though whether this is a Suse-specific fix or if it is also been applied to Ubuntu Karmic.
  • dnh
    edited November 12, 2009
    Hello. I just updated to Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 and FF3.5 and here to, Openoffice crashes. It is indeed the bibliography that seems to cause the crash.
  • edgarkls
    unfortunately, it is NOT fixed in OpenSuse 11.2 final. Inserting the bibliography still crashes Openoffice. So two major distributions currently seem to be a no-go
  • dnh
    Temporary workaround: Removing openoffice.org-kde renders Openoffice ugly, but apparently prevents it from crashing.
  • dnh
    And let me add: One can change the button style in the preferences giving Openoffice an okay look, but obviously not giving the just introduced native kde look (which is what openoffice.org-kde is supposed to do, I guess).
  • michaelhust
    Hi,

    I'am using OpenOffice 3.1.1, too. I have the same problem with the crash when adding the bibliography.
    The Removing of openoffice.org-kde (and kde4) does not work for me :-(. I also tried 3.1.99 (m2) from the unstable repositories. Here, the same problem occurs.

    @dnh: did you change/remove anything else as -kde?
  • michaelhust
    The Zotero problem is KDE specific. If using Gnome Zotero works fine!
    See also: http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/425492-openoffice-opensuse-11-2-a-3.html#post2078367

    my temporary workaround is: use a Gnome session instead of KDE when working with Zotero.
  • michaelhust
    Hi,

    now, in my case also the deletion of /usr/lib/ooo3/basis3.1/program/libvclplug_kde4lx.so
    works :-)! For 64bit it's "/usr/lib64/ooo3/basis3.1/program/libvclplug_kde4lx.so"


    I would never need Gnome again ;-).

    Michael
  • jeppeb
    I have the same problem with Kubuntu 9.10 and OOo 3.1.1.
    I tried to move libvclplug_kde4li.so out of the directory, and that seemed to work - but then I can't save etc.

    Any idea when the bug is solved?

    Thanks!
  • michaelhust
    Hi jeppeb,

    try to delete the OpenOffice KDE4 extensions (I deleted them in OpenSuse). I assume the KDE4 integration (Save, Load, Print...) will only work with the libvclplug_kde4li.so.

    All the best

    Michael
  • dnh
    Openoffice still crashes when openoffice.ord-kde is installed ...
  • Simon
    This will be fixed in OOo 3.2. Until then, there's nothing we can do about it (besides tell you to remove KDE integration).
  • dnh
    Seems to work on Kubuntu 10.04 with OOo 3.2! :-)
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