Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 3016
Activating the spell checker crashes the appl.
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
I have installed OpenOffice with a network installation on single PC. I then made a workstation install on the same machine. When I open a document all seems to function correctly. As soon as I do a manual check or set automatic spell checking on, the app. crashes. The crash is detected by the app, then a system dialog box reports access to in an invalid memory address.Same occurs with the presentation application. This did not occur with the pervious version of OpenOffice. OS is NT with SP6a. User is a standard user account.
Hi, Please see Issuezilla #2670 and #3000. There was a bug in the scp script (my fault) that impacts only net installs. It neglects to properly install the "dictionary.lst" and en_US.aff and en_US.dic files under network installs. The fix has already been contributed as a patch to the OO641 tree and thus should make it into the next release. As a workaround simply copy the following files from the user/ wordbook/ directory (at the main OOo installation directory) to your own user specific OpenOffice.org641/user/wordbook/ dictionary.lst en_US.aff en_US.dic Then try spell checking things again. Please let me know if you still have problems after using this workaround in case there are other things going on here that need to be handled. Thanks, Kevin
Kevin, This is the second time I am updating this issue. I don't know if my first attempt was not successfull, or if my input needs to be reviewd, nevertheless here it goes again: Read issues #2670 and #3000 and my issue seems to be a repeat. I would consider this resolved and duplicated. I did as you indicated and it solved the problem. Thanks. H.F.
Hi, Thanks for getting back to me. Glad to hear the workaround helped. Yes, I will close this as duplicate of 3000 if that is alright with everyone. Kevin *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 3000 ***
This reminds me of a bugfix I've made in the user dictionary implentation. If it happens only sometimes on a irregular basis and the OpenOffice version is a bit older it might be the case... There was sometimes an index-out-of-range access to an array that every now and then caused a crash when accessing the user dictionaries (spelling, hyphenation). The problem was fixed in the linguistic sub-project in file dicimp.cxx version 1.10. This file is available at OpenOffice since about two month already. If your OpenOffice build features an older build it may be this problem. I currently do not know of which date the latest OpenOffice build is and thus don't know if the problem is fixed in that build. You need to find out yourself about this if interested. At least in any newer build (last two month) this problem should be solved...
closing this one out