unable to save any document, apache-openoffice-4.1.1_6

[Don Lewis]

On 28 Feb, Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:59 PM, Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 26 Feb, To: jgh at freebsd.org wrote:
>>>> On 26 Feb, Jason Helfman wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I am unable to save any document in OpenOffice. I have latest installed pkg
>>>> version of 4.1.1_6.
>>>> 
>>>> The error that is thrown when the program exits is:
>>>> terminate called after throwing an instance of
>>>> 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'
>>>> 
>>>> Any thoughts or ideas are welcome!
>>> 
>>> I've seen at least one other report of this problem.  It seems to affect
>>> FreeBSD 10 and/or 11.  I'm still running FreeBSD 8 and haven't
>>> encountered this problem.  Unfortunately the machine that I was running
>>> FreeBSD 11 on died.  I've got a box full of parts to assemble a new
>>> machine, but haven't had the time to assemble it.
>> 
>> I can reproduce this problem on FreeBSD 10-STABLE, on both amd64 and
>> i386.  The problem seems to be triggered by most things that pop up a
>> dialog box.  I can confirm previous reports that Format Cells in a
>> spreadsheet also triggers this problem.  I also triggered it with Insert
>> Table in a text document.  On the other hand, the print dialog box does
>> not trigger it.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for your work on verification. Are there any upstream reports?

Not that I'm aware of.  The first reports of this problem are fairly
old, and it only seems to affect recent version of FreeBSD (10 and 11 I
think).  I can also reproduce this problem with openoffice-devel, which
is a fairly recent version from upstream.

I'm currently attempting to build openoffice with debug symbols.  I
suspect this problem is going to take a while to track down and fix.