Issue 3455 - word processor freezes while opening this document
Summary: word processor freezes while opening this document
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 641
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2002-03-12 20:06 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-09-08 16:56 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2002-03-12 20:06:38 UTC 
* OpenOffice 641 (binay download)
* Running on Red Hat Linux 7.2 / i386
* Linux 2.4.7-10 #1 Thu Sep 6 17:27:27 EDT 2001 i686 unknown
* intel P-III-600, 256MB RAM

Installed "custom", installing only all WordProcessor and English language 
support

Downloaded this Word2000 file : 
<http://www.ais.unc.edu/hr/jobs/empfrms/apply-staff.doc>

How to reproduce:
1. Download .doc file
2. Start OpenOffice with ~/OpenOffice.org641/soffice
3. File -> Open ->  apply-staff.doc
4. The application starts opening it, and after seeing the progress bar reach 
~40%, it freezes.
5. Kill the application with 'killall -9 soffice.bin'


If I run with the --debug option I get:

[sinner@dhcp59 OpenOffice.org641]$ ./soffice --debug
./soffice: //HACK: No such file or directory
Error - could not open dictionary description file
Failure loading dictionary list
Error - could not open dictionary description file
Failure loading dictionary list
Error - could not open dictionary description file
Failure loading dictionary list
Killed
[sinner@dhcp59 OpenOffice.org641]$

Hope this helps.
Comment 1 Unknown 2002-03-12 20:11:53 UTC 
Also, another file from the same place gets open with no problems at 
all:

<http://www.ais.unc.edu/hr/jobs/empfrms/skills-computing.doc>
Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2002-03-21 17:48:53 UTC 
Reassigned to Michael.
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2002-05-17 13:45:34 UTC 
I cannot rproduce this at the moment. Do you still have the problem
(e.g. with openOffice 1.0.0?
Comment 4 kuneho 2002-07-01 13:08:41 UTC 
I successfully opened the first file without any problems.  I use OOo
1.0.0 on a Windows-based system.  One thing though, it took my Celeron
400Mhz 384MB Ram system 27 seconds to open said file, and during the
opening process, the progress bar stopped for quite a while at around
the 40% mark, and moments later the file was opened.  But the opening
progress indicator didn't show animation moving past 40%.

I think this problem no longer persists in 1.0.0, but a fast system
with lots of memory would definitely help in opening said file.
Comment 5 michael.ruess 2002-09-09 12:32:03 UTC 
Seems to be fixed with a similar issue.
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2002-09-09 12:32:17 UTC 
Closed, because works now.