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Bug 166532 - Crash during save of .xls
Crash during save of .xls
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: import/export MS Excel (tm)
git master
Other All
: Normal critical
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Assigned To: Morten Welinder
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-07 07:15 UTC by Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Modified: 2005-02-08 18:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
The example file. (29.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-02-07 07:19 UTC, Helmut Wollmersdorfer 		Details
screenshot of such a crash (48.24 KB, image/png)
2005-02-07 20:50 UTC, Helmut Wollmersdorfer 		Details
step by step instruction (803 bytes, text/plain)
2005-02-07 20:51 UTC, Helmut Wollmersdorfer 		Details
example file status1 (36.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-02-07 20:53 UTC, Helmut Wollmersdorfer 		Details
Example file status2 (45.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-02-07 20:53 UTC, Helmut Wollmersdorfer 		Details
Example file status3 (45.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-02-07 20:54 UTC, Helmut Wollmersdorfer 		Details

Description Helmut Wollmersdorfer 2005-02-07 07:15:59 UTC 
Version details: 1.4.1
Distribution/Version: Debian/Sarge

Gnumeric crashes after opening, doing some changes and final save of an .xls.
The changes are lost.
This happened more than once with the same file.
Maybe the crash is related to Bug 166492, as this is the same file. Saving
resulted in a crash (3 times) or in Bug 166492.

The file was created with XL on WinXP, Changed with OO on Debian/Sarge.

Additional information:

helmut@xp2400:~$ ls /mnt/hda6 -all | grep sumif
-rwxrwxrwx   1 helmut helmut     29696 Feb  6 21:33 sumif-test.xls

helmut@xp2400:~$ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda6
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0

Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Comment 1 Helmut Wollmersdorfer 2005-02-07 07:19:07 UTC 
Created attachment 37087 [details]
The example file.
Comment 2 Morten Welinder 2005-02-07 14:27:53 UTC 
I see no problems, even under purify.

A stack trace and/or step-by-step instructions would be helpful.
Comment 3 Helmut Wollmersdorfer 2005-02-07 20:50:30 UTC 
Created attachment 37123 [details]
screenshot of such a crash
Comment 4 Helmut Wollmersdorfer 2005-02-07 20:51:18 UTC 
Created attachment 37124 [details]
step by step instruction
Comment 5 Helmut Wollmersdorfer 2005-02-07 20:53:01 UTC 
Created attachment 37125 [details]
example file status1
Comment 6 Helmut Wollmersdorfer 2005-02-07 20:53:52 UTC 
Created attachment 37126 [details]
Example file status2
Comment 7 Helmut Wollmersdorfer 2005-02-07 20:54:30 UTC 
Created attachment 37127 [details]
Example file status3
Comment 8 Helmut Wollmersdorfer 2005-02-07 21:00:00 UTC 
Now I installed gnumeric-1.4.2-2 (Debian) and 1.4.2-rc1.exe (WinXP).

The error is reproducable under both installations. See attached files,
especially "step by step instruction"

Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Comment 9 Morten Welinder 2005-02-08 16:30:57 UTC 
While I don't get a crash, I do get what appears to be an infinite loop.
Comment 10 Morten Welinder 2005-02-08 18:09:35 UTC 
We are hitting a Pango bug: bug 166700.  We can work around this.
Comment 11 Morten Welinder 2005-02-08 18:22:00 UTC 
Fixed in cvs (by working around the issue).  Thanks for persisting.