[arch-general] Crashing in libreoffice on certain .odp (Impress) files

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4 Jun 2013 09:56, "Oon-Ee Ng" <ngoonee.talk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday I used libreoffice to present a lecture from 3-4pm. Today
>> morning I tried to open the exact same file and got immediate
>> crashing. 2 of my lecture slides have this problem, 2 do not.
>>
>> In between, I updated to [testing] (this is a new laptop) and did
>> quite a few installs, but none (except the big [testing] update for
>> the /usr/bin move) seem related. See [1].
>>
>> I have tried deleting ~/.config/libreoffice, to no avail. No error
>> logs that I can see on the terminal (does libreoffice spit out errors
>> anywhere?).
>>
>> Backups of the lecture slides (before small modifications which I
>> may/not have made also exhibited the same behaviour.
>>
>> Googling shows various unrelated (I think) problems which seem to
>> already be fixed in the latest libreoffice, mainly solved by deleting
>> the .config/libreoffice folder (which I've tried).
>>
>> Suggestions please.
>>
>> [1] - http://pastebin.com/P4XE1uea
>
> Just tried loading same files via libreoffice on windows, no issue.

And... I realized there's libreoffice-rpm on the AUR, which gives the
same issues. Looks like an upstream bug then, heading to their forums.