LibreOffice Writer bug – crashes when leaving full screen print preview

[Member scruffyeagle]

I’ve got a bug happening, in Libre Office Writer. I’m not sure how long this bug has existed, because there was a long stretch of time when I didn’t use the full screen mode of print preview. But, I’ve been using it again now, and there’s a serious BUG in it.

The problem is that the LO Writer program is incapable of exiting full screen mode of print preview without crashing. This has been a nuisance, forcing me to re-open whatever document file I was working with – but last night it was an extra step worse. You see, I use VeraCrypt for data storage on an external drive – and when I wanted to dismount the partition, it couldn’t do it. It claimed there was still a file open, although there was nothing showing in the task bar. Finally, I just backed up the partition which wouldn’t dismount, and then shut down the machine without finishing proper dismount first. Starting up today, I discovered that LOW wanted to recover the file which had crashed last night. I let it do so, then closed the file properly.

I went to the LO website, and discovered that the current stable version is v7.3.6. By contrast, the version being served from the repo is v7.0.4.2. I’d considered filing a bug report w/ LO, but discovering that the repo version was so far behind, I concluded they’d probably just tell me to upgrade to the current version before complaining about a bug.

One possible solution to my problem, would be to uninstall the repo version, then download & install the current stable version from the website in its place. That might fix the problem… But,I’m cautious of doing that, thinking that perhaps the repo version has been tweaked in some manner to fit antiX – and perhaps losing those tweaks could cause new problems.

Another possible solution, given that the current installation is antiX v19.4, would be for me to set up an antiX v21 installation using some of the unused space on this machine’s internal HD. (It’s got enough empty space for 2 or 3 such installations…) But, that would be a pain in the you-know-what, going through the rigamarole & shennanigans of setting up another new OS. It seems like it would be much easier, to simply fix the issue that’s going wrong.

So, I’m seeking advice here in the forum, re. what’s the best course of action for me to solve this problem. Thanks in advance, for any helpful comments.

Here’s the output of inxi -Fxxxrz
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System:
Kernel: 4.9.0-264-antix.1-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.0.0 vt: 7 dm: SLiM v: 1.3.6
Distro: antiX-19.4_x64-full Grup Yorum 20 May 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude E6400 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 8 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0U692R serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A34
date: 06/04/2013
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 76.4 Wh (102.0%) condition: 74.9/76.4 Wh (98.1%)
volts: 12.2 min: 11.1 model: Panasonic DELL FU44196 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 bits: 64 type: MCP
smt: <unsupported> arch: Penryn Yorkfield rev: A cache: L1: 128 KiB
L2: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/2401 boost: enabled cores: 1: 800
2: 800 bogomips: 9576
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen5 ports: active: LVDS-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:2a42 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.4 driver: X: loaded: intel gpu: i915
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280×800 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x211mm (13.31×8.31″)
s-diag: 398mm (15.69″)
Monitor-1: LVDS-1 mapped: LVDS1 model: Seiko Epson 0x5441 res: 1280×800
hz: 60 dpi: 107 size: 303x190mm (11.93×7.48″) diag: 358mm (14.1″)
modes: 1280×800
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:293e class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k4.9.0-264-antix.1-amd64-smp running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e
v: 3.2.6-k port: efe0 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:10f5 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:4232 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: 6ea0 bus-ID: 00:1f.2 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A
class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 288.77 GiB (24.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK2561GSYN size: 232.89 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 0C scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital
model: WD My Passport 0748 size: 931.48 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter>
rev: 1019 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 28.71 GiB used: 7.42 GiB (25.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -1
dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3010
Repos:
Packages: apt: 2141
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/antix/buster/ buster main nonfree nosystemd
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports non-free contrib main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info:
Processes: 216 Uptime: 1h 43m wakeups: 5 Memory: 3.82 GiB
used: 1.73 GiB (45.5%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5
Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.3 running-in: roxterm
inxi: 3.3.19

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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All libreoffice versions on antiX come from Debian repos and as far as we know they have not been ‘tweaked’.
Since you are using the old stable version of antiX (and Debian), the only way to get an ‘up to date version’ is to either install directly debs from libreoffice or use an appimage (if available).

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[Member ModdIt]

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Hi Scruffyeagle,
I never ran in to that bug but it was around for a long time.
My suspicion is that the problem may be java related.

You could use the Buster Backported LO libreoffice (1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1)
It is probably fixed. If you use java please do get Oracle jave and set it up.
Just copy in to opt then point lo to the package. You can find details in older
Forum posts.

Or as anticapitalista suggested remove repo version of LO.
Instructions are in LO Wiki.

Download new package and Language pack or packs from LO Org.
Unpack.

Enter sudo apt install in the terminal then using rox filer (or your choice)
mark drag and drop the LO .deb packages in to the terminal. Tap enter for
installation.

Only disadvantage is you will not get automatic updates.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 4 weeks ago by ModdIt.

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