Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 11634
Opening document from web twice in succession crashes writer
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
I use Mozilla 1.3b as my browser and I have OOo set up as my default MS Word document handler. When viewing the above webpage, I clicked on the link labelled "Microsoft's response" twice quickly in a row - this link points to "http://www.mvps.org/vb/rants/VBTransition2.doc". I immediately get this error: 'DDE Server Window: soffice.exe - Application Error', 'The instruction at "0x1e359009" referenced memory at "0x00000006". The memory could not be "read"' I tried recreating the error (on the same site with the same file) twice or three times in a row *before* letting the browser fully download the file, now it's cached, I can't get the error to happen again. After letting the browser download the file, I tried recreating the error on my machine by writing a simple HTML page with a link to the same online word document, but this doesn't cause the error either! What seems to be happening is that the file from the web has been half downloaded when I get the error, of course this could be partly a Mozilla error, but the message box says soffice.exe .... I hope this helps.
Not sure what to do about this one: clicking on hyperlinks in half-downloaded documents shouldn't cause a crash ( can't reproduce this anyway, since I don't have mozilla) but you shouldn't do it, either :-)
For what it's worth, the hyperlink he clicked on was a hyperlink *to* the document. I have a feeling the bug would happen with IE, too, as long as it takes a long time to download the document. Try clicking on http://www.mvps.org/vb/rants/VBTransition2.doc a bunch of times fast in IE... I will myself, once I get to a Windows machine.
JA: cannot reproduce using Linux... JA->HI: please test this on Win2000. Just click two times on the link with a very short break between the clicks.
Craig, can you reproduce this with OpenOffice1.1beta? I tried it with ooo1.1beta on windows xp, and was unable to reproduce the problem. I did notice something odd, though: the taskbar icons for OpenOffice were orange sometimes. I have no idea what that means. Seemed to be a toggleable state.
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