Hi Frank, It is not a typo, however, the bug is marked as "private". I think that means that only I (the reporter) and the "debug team" (or whatever) have access to it.
I think there's a policy that makes most (all?) bugs automatically reported to be marked private since they may contain private information in automatically generated dumps. Or maybe, it is 'cause I posted an example spreadsheet to reproduce the bug. It was not me who marked it private (I took an effort to erase all private information from the spreadsheet). Anyway, I'll copy here the information in the last three messages in that bug that may help people with the same problem. ~penalvch said that the bug belonged upstream (into libreoffice's bug report system). I did NOT take the time to report it there but as of 2014-11-05 I got an update from the standard ubuntu repositories with libreoffice 4.2.7 (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.2.7-0ubuntu1) and the bug was gone. Scanning through the changelog I found a reference about changing the default sorting behavior which I guess is what solved my problem. HTH -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1369808 Title: LibreOffice Calc crashes when sorting a range by column Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Almost every time I try to sort a range of a large xls spreadsheet, localc crashes and exits. I ran an strace in the hope that someone can find out what's happening. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 $ apt-cache policy libreoffice libreoffice: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:4.2.6.3-0ubuntu1 Version table: 1:4.2.6.3-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages 1:4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages (in the following dump, I pressed [ENTER] a few times before trying to sort the range). $ strace lowriter MySpreadsheet.xls execve("/usr/bin/lowriter", ["lowriter", "MySpreadsheet.xls"], [/* 81 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x7fcdf15f5000 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fcdf0a87000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=142916, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 142916, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7fcdf0a64000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\320\37\2\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1845024, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3953344, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7fcdf04a1000 mprotect(0x7fcdf065c000, 2097152, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x7fcdf085c000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1bb000) = 0x7fcdf085c000 mmap(0x7fcdf0862000, 17088, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fcdf0862000 close(3) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fcdf0a63000 mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fcdf0a61000 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7fcdf0a61740) = 0 mprotect(0x7fcdf085c000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7fcdf0ca7000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7fcdf0a89000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x7fcdf0a64000, 142916) = 0 getpid() = 27990 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x7fcdf0a9e460, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fcdf04d7c30}, NULL, 8) = 0 geteuid() = 1010 brk(0) = 0x7fcdf15f5000 brk(0x7fcdf1616000) = 0x7fcdf1616000 getppid() = 27987 stat("/home/baby/Documents/Cuentas/Tarjetas", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/bin/lowriter", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl(3, F_DUPFD, 10) = 10 close(3) = 0 fcntl(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x7fcdf0a9e460, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fcdf04d7c30}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fcdf04d7c30}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_DFL, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fcdf04d7c30}, NULL, 8) = 0 read(10, "#!/bin/sh\n/usr/lib/libreoffice/p"..., 8192) = 61 clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7fcdf0a61a10) = 27991 wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 139}], 0, NULL) = 27991 --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=27991, si_status=139, si_utime=1, si_stime=1} --- rt_sigreturn() = 27991 read(10, "", 8192) = 0 exit_group(139) = ? +++ exited with 139 +++ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1369808/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

