Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 5172
Spell checker freezing OpenOffice (sometimes)
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
OpenOffice on my wife's laptop freezes about 50% of the time when she tries to spell check documents. I'd think this was a problem with the wordbook entries, except that the other 50% of the time, spell checking works flawlessly. She's starting to get frustrated with it, so I broke down and am filing this bug report. I don't know how to consistently reproduce this problem; as I said, it is hit or miss on her machine. When it fails, this is usually what happens: 1) She launches the spell checker from the Tools menu. 2) The spell check window invariably opens 3) Sometimes it freezes immediately, but usually it freezes after checking a few words. OpenOffice simply locks up, and she must kill the processes by hand. I've tried stracing the OpenOffice processes, and it appears that /some/ of them are still active -- IE, not frozen -- but the UI is completely hung. Thanks.
FME: It would be helpful to have a document and an exact way to reproduce the bug. Does this bug also appear if you enable the AutoSpellCheck feature (Tools - Spellcheck - AutoSpellCheck) before performing the manual spell check (Tool - Spellcheck - Check)? Looks like i4502 / i4844.
FME: I think it's for me.
Hi, This could be an OOo spellcheck issue (not Star). So I am adding myself as CC to this. One question: Have you installed any extra dictionaries for any languages other than en_US. Some contributed dictioanries may contain bugs in their affix files that can corrupt memory and cause random problems under any platform. If you have installed any other dictioanries, could you please let me know which ones so that I can download and check them for bugs just to rule that out. Thanks, Kevin
I've been posting this information incorrectly, it appears, so I'm resubmitting it here. I got some more info from my wife First, I'm aware that processes under Linux aren't straightforward; threads being listed as processes in 'top'. However, she's noticed that when she kill OpenOffice via the KDE process manager, there are no fewer than 6 OpenOffice processes, and usually there are about 10. Once she had 61 OpenOffice processes in the list. Spell checking /always/ works the first time. She didn't notice a pattern in how many times she checks after the first that it crashes, but she said that after she re/starts OpenOffice, she can work for a couple of hours before it hangs again. This is difficult for her to gauge, because she doesn't spellcheck constantly, but she said she'd try to count the spell checks between hangs in the future. Another thing she noticed is that it also doesn't matter which action she uses; she uses 'ignore' and 'replace' the most, but she's seen it crash on all of them -- ignore, replace, and add. (Addendum) She's been running OO with Auto Spellcheck on today, and she's spellchecked a couple of times with no crashes. This doesn't mean anything; usually she can spell check a few times before it hangs. We'll know more by tomorrow.
Hi Frank, Is this the same as 4502? If so, should we close this one as fixed and then ask themn to reopen it if the forthcoming OOo 1.0.1 does not fix their problem. What do you think? Thanks, Kevin
For the past week+, my wife has had auto-spellcheck turned on, and hasn't had OO crash on her at all. Whatever auto-spellcheck does, it seems to fix the problem. She doesn't /like/ auto-spellcheck, but it is better than the hangs :-) Thanks to whomever suggested this.
Ok, Sean confirmed that AutoSpellCheck solves the problem. This makes me quite sure that this is the same as #4502#. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4502 ***
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FME->SBA: Duplicate.
Updating this to be resolved as duplicate of 4502 which has long been fixed. Kevin *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4502 ***
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