Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 66148
endless loop on file loading
Last modified: 2006-08-29 14:38:35 UTC
- Problem with endess loop on file loading - I just ran into a problem with OOWriter2.02, which I can not solve. I modified a document, which contains several links to pictures (.pcx) and some embedded objects like equations written with the microsoft equedit 3.0, and drawings from CorelDesigner 10.0. I stored, reopened and edited that document several times without problems, but when I try now to open it again, after a few seconds (i.e. as soon as the blue progress status bar vanishes) the process soffice.bin consumes 100% of the processor time, even before I touch anything in the document. According to the task manager, the number of handles used by all process just increases and decreases by some +/- 5, but nothing really happens. The process obviously runs in some endless loop. No disk i/o occurs - it is seemingly just a loop in the code. I just noticed, that some equation numbers I use and which should include the chapter number show some unrealistiv values for this chapter number part (e.g. "4.104.10" instead of just "4.10". Is there any way to get rid of this problem? Any workaround? Any means to locate more precisely what makes the program hang up? I use Windows XP, Oo2.02.
Created attachment 36938 [details] file causes endless loop on loading
I cannot reproduce the problem (checked with OO 2.0.2 and OO 2.0.3 on Windows XP). Maybe there's a problem with the configuration folder. Try to delete it (in c:\documents and settings\userID\Application Dara\).
Thank you for your efforts! I verified the problem with this special document before already on two different computers, both with Oo2.02 and WinXP. Very similar documents which form other sub-parts of the same global manuscript all work well, therefore I do not believe that it is a problem with some settings in the directory C:\....\OpenOffice.org2 . I tried now two different things: - Opening the document under SuSe linux with Oo2.0 works. - Opening the global document and selecting "refresh all links" (in my German version: "alle Verknüpfungen aktualisieren") works - but the sub-document is write-protected then. Thus, using linux I have my workaround, but my impression is still that the win version of Oo2.02 has some not stable behaviour in the file opening part, which causes problems when some embedded objects exist.
MRU->ES: it does not seem to be a layout loop - more when updating links to grpahics or subdocuments.
I have no problems loading this document. WinXP Home SP2, OOo 2.0.3 RC5
@ktphys: can you please try 2.0.3 and tell us if it's still a problem?
Where can I get the Version 2.03? I just find the beta-version 2.0.169. One more observation on the loading of my defective file: I have the impression, that the endless loop starts as soon as the spell-checker begins to work and underlines with the red wave line some words unknown to it. I have installed the German, French and English version of this tool. Could it eventually be that the problem is linked to this part of the loading procedure?
Well it's not yet a 2.0.3 but a developper build: http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html It is possible that it's a spell checker problem, but frankly, I don't think so.
wfm
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