CentOS - Nov 2020 - LibreOffice locking up

> On 05/25/2020 07:13 PM, H wrote:
>> On 05/25/2020 02:15 AM, hw wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2020-05-24 at 19:56 -0400, H wrote:
>>>> I am running LibreOffice 5.3.6.1 under the latest update of
CentOS 7
>>>> and
>>>> the Mate desktop. Not infrequently LibreOffice Calc locks up
and I
>>>> have
>>>> to force close the application. Altough the spreadsheet is
rather
>>>> large I
>>>> would not consider it complex.
>>>>
>>>> This has been going on for some time and I am curious if the
bug might
>>>> be
>>>> in LibreOffice or if there is some interaction with the Mate
desktop
>>>> that
>>>> might be responsible. Both CentOS, LibreOffice and Mate have
been
>>>> regularly updated from the standard repositories for a long
time.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone else have the same problem?
>>> Yes, libreoffice sometimes locks up when trying to open a file. 
The
>>> same
>>> problem was there with Debian, and now it's the same with
Fedora.
>>>
>>> I have made a bug report about it, and the response was that there
is
>>> insufficient information to do anyhing.  Unfortunately, I don't
have
>>> sufficient information I could give because it just happens
sometimes
>>> to
>>> users who have been so far unable to tell me if particular types of
>>> files
>>> are affected or if there are any discerninable circumstances that
could
>>> help to figure this out.
>>>
>>> Here's the bug report:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1809771
>>>
>>>
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>> For some reason I could not enter a new bug for LibreOffice since the
>> package is missing from the the list of Fedora apps. I thus added
>> information to your bug report above.
>>
>> I encourage other users encountering similar bugs in LO to add
>> information.
>>
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> LibreOffice locked my CentOS 7 hard today, I could not close the
> application, nor could I reboot the computer by any other mean than
> turning the computer off and then on again. The lockup happened while
> loading one of my spreadsheets.
>
> First, I do not understand why a wayward application can lock my computer
> so hard that I have to cycle power.
>
> Second, I cannot understand why this bug is not fixed. LibreOffice is
> obviously one of the key applications users will run. It should not be
> that hard to put out a debug version that those of us who have this
> problem - at least once a week in my case - that a debug log could help
> the developers fix this serious bug.
Can you reproduce the problem with this document?

And, when the crash happened, could you still ping the computer from
another device in the network?

Crashing hard so that only a reset helps is usually only possible with a
kernel bug or hardware issue, not something LibreOffice should be able to
do.

Regards,
Simon

> Can you reproduce the problem with this document?
> 
> And, when the crash happened, could you still ping the computer from
> another device in the network?
> 
> Crashing hard so that only a reset helps is usually only possible with a
> kernel bug or hardware issue, not something LibreOffice should be able to
> do.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon
> 
I would agree. In my experience, so called "lockups" are usually the
result of the video crashing. If you can ping then try ssh to the box
and do init 3 then init 5 to reset the graphics and see if that clears it.

Mike

Mike McCarthy, W1NR <sysop at w1nr.net> ? 2020?11?3? ?? ??7:56???
>
> > Can you reproduce the problem with this document?
> >
> > And, when the crash happened, could you still ping the computer from
> > another device in the network?
> >
> > Crashing hard so that only a reset helps is usually only possible with
a
> > kernel bug or hardware issue, not something LibreOffice should be able
to
> > do.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon
> >
> I would agree. In my experience, so called "lockups" are usually
the
> result of the video crashing. If you can ping then try ssh to the box
> and do init 3 then init 5 to reset the graphics and see if that clears it.
>
Hi

In my case, when the LibreOffice lockup happened, the PC was still alive.
The Desktop/GUI is frozen, and the only thing still working is the mouse
pointer
which still follows the mouse movement.  However, you can only move the
mouse pointer,
but clicking on the mouse button doesn't work.

Keyboard seems to die, but Ctrl-Alt-F2 still works.  So I can use text mode
to kill the Desktop session (mate-session, gdm-session) to logout, then the
system will back
and GUI login dialog show up.

I can't repeat the problem, but it happens sometime (at CentOS 6x, 7x &
8x).

Regards,
KC


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