Issue 3016 - Activating the spell checker crashes the appl.
Summary: Activating the spell checker crashes the appl.
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 3000
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 641
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: stefan.baltzer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2002-02-07 08:45 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2002-02-07 08:45:40 UTC 
I have installed OpenOffice with a network installation on single PC. I then 
made a workstation install on the same machine. When I open a document all 
seems to function correctly. As soon as I do a manual check or set 
automatic spell checking on, the app. crashes. The crash is detected by the 
app, then a system dialog box reports access to in an invalid memory 
address.Same occurs with the presentation application. 

This did not occur with the pervious version of OpenOffice. 

OS is NT with SP6a.
User is a standard user account.
Comment 1 khendricks 2002-02-07 15:34:40 UTC 
Hi,

Please see Issuezilla #2670 and #3000.

There was a bug in the scp script (my fault) that impacts only net 
installs.  It neglects to properly install the "dictionary.lst" and 
en_US.aff and en_US.dic files under network installs.

The fix has already been contributed as a patch to the OO641 
tree and thus should make it  into the next release.

As a workaround simply copy the following files from the user/
wordbook/ directory (at the main OOo installation directory) to 
your own user specific OpenOffice.org641/user/wordbook/

dictionary.lst
en_US.aff
en_US.dic

Then try spell checking things again.

Please let me know if you still have problems after using this 
workaround in case there are other things going on here that 
need to be handled.

Thanks,

Kevin
Comment 2 Unknown 2002-02-08 09:08:42 UTC 
Kevin,

This is the second time I am updating this issue. I don't
know if my first attempt was not successfull, or if my input needs 
to be reviewd, nevertheless here it goes again:

Read issues #2670 and #3000 and my issue seems to be a repeat.
I would consider this resolved and duplicated.

I did as you indicated and it solved the problem.

Thanks.
H.F.
Comment 3 khendricks 2002-02-08 18:16:50 UTC 
Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me.  Glad to hear the workaround helped.  
Yes, I will close this as duplicate of 3000 if that is alright with 
everyone.

Kevin



*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 3000 ***
Comment 4 thomas.lange 2002-02-13 10:12:29 UTC 
This reminds me of a bugfix I've made in the user dictionary 
implentation.
If it happens only sometimes on a irregular basis and the OpenOffice 
version is a bit older it might be the case...

There was sometimes an index-out-of-range access to an array that 
every now and then caused a crash when accessing the user 
dictionaries (spelling, hyphenation).
The problem was fixed in the linguistic sub-project in file 
dicimp.cxx version 1.10.
This file is available at OpenOffice since about two month already.

If your OpenOffice build features an older build it may be this 
problem. I currently do not know of which date the latest OpenOffice 
build is and thus don't know if the problem is fixed in that build.
You need to find out yourself about this if interested.

At least in any newer build (last two month) this problem should be 
solved...
Comment 5 khendricks 2002-06-04 14:36:26 UTC 
closing this one out