2005/11/21, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Ambrogio wrote: > > Il giorno sab, 12/11/2005 alle 16.58 +0200, Dotan Cohen ha scritto: > > > >>Since the pgrade to OO2, we have random crashes in Writer. As they > > > > > > Hi, > > on some other messages in the list I read that it's better to remove OOO > > from fedora and install OOO from the official site. > > > > It seems not to solve the problem, even if the crashes are less > > frequent. > > It hurt a lot becose it's not possible to recovery and all the changes > > are loss. > > > > But I noted that disabling all about the auto spell check seems to solve > > the problem. > > > > I had a Calc opened for 10 hours without a crash, and the same file with > > speecheck enabled crashed randomly in few minutes. > > > > I hope it is usefull for all fedora users, and who had opened the > > bugzilla to OpenOffice team can try to tell them this info. > > > > By > > > > > > I have seen crashes on the same document in 25 seconds and 3 hours. > Same machine, same document, same configuration. It is random so your > test may or may not show the problem. > > I have seen the application just die while working on something else. > > > Did you try the official version from openoffice. org? > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > how to debug linux software: 1. install debuginfo packages for the components you want to debug 2. run gdb with em, heres a sample session: gdb /path/to/binary <- opens the binary with the debugger run <- starts the binary in the debugger <comment> if it halts during execution without giving a backtrace use the command "cont" over and over again until it really crashes.</comment> bt <- once you reached the crash situation this command will show you the backtrace. thats what developers need to see what went wrong. regards, Rudolf Kastl p.s. if you have more questions about how to go for it just ask away in this thread.