https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127157
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--- Comment #1 from Stephen L'Allier <slallier2...@my.fit.edu> ---
I have successfully replicated this issue. Additionally, I have also found the
corrupted lines of registrymodifications.xcu (which I will hereby refer to as
the AOO configuration file) that are causing the Styles and Formatting to not
open when F11 is pressed. Below I have listed the specifications of my test
machine, the steps taken to reproduce the bug, and information about the
corrupted lines in the AOO configuration file.
Test Machine Specifications
AOO Version: 4.0.1
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7870
RAM: 8 GB DDR4
OS: Windows 10 w/ Anniversary Update
Steps taken to reproduce failure
1. Open AOO Writer and press F11 to ensure Styles and Formatting window
opens regularly.
2. Close AOO Writer.
3. Download potentially corrupted AOO file from the Bug Report.
4. Replace current AOO configuration file with the downloaded one while
OpenOffice Writer is closed. Current file located at:
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4\user\registrymodifcations.xcu
5. Open AOO Writer.
6. Press F11 and see that the Styles and Formatting window does not appear.
7. Close AOO Writer.
8. Replace corrupted AOO configuration file with the old one.
9. Open AOO Writer.
10. Pres F11 and see that the Styles and Formatting windows appears as it is
supposed to.
Steps taken to fix failure
I noticed that the size of the corrupted AOO configuration file was much larger
than my original one, so I decided to open it to look inside. It is in XML
format, but I had to use an XML Formatter online in order to get the
indentation to show up. After doing so, the number of lines in the corrupted
file was 8148. For comparison, my fresh AOO configuration file was 372 lines.
With such a drastic difference in size, I knew the issue could be anywhere. I
decided to manually perform a Binary Search on the corrupted file in order to
see if I could isolate the corrupted lines. I did so by repeating the following
steps until finding the corrupted lines.
1. Remove one half of the N lines (where N is 8148 to start) from the
corrupted AOO configuration file.
2. Save the file.
3. Open AOO Writer.
4. Press F11 to see if the problem is fixed.
5. If the problem is fixed, the sample size of the lines is reduced to only
the half that was tested, as the corrupted lines are in that sample. N is half
the size that it was. Repeat steps 1-4 until the corrupted lines are found.
6. If the problem is not fixed, perform steps 1-4 on the other half of the
lines and proceed.
This method worked excellently, and after following the procedure outlined
above, I narrowed down the corrupted lines to lines 6189-6193. Those lines are
pasted below.
<item
oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Views/Windows/org.openoffice.Office.Views:WindowType['5539']/UserData">
<prop oor:name="Data" oor:op="fuse" oor:type="xs:string">
<value>V2,H,0,AL:(5,16,0/1/1/430,1;917)</value>
</prop>
</item>
I experimented with leaving different parts of this item entry in place and
only removing small parts. If I removed the “/UserData” at the end of the
oor:path, F11 began functioning correctly again. I did a search for the string
“/UserData” in the configuration file and found one more instance of it, on
line 6014. I removed that one as well, and found that a sidepane that had been
hidden was no longer hidden.
Because the corrupted AOO configuration file was so large, it is possibly
filled with other issues as well. Some of the effects of these changes are
noticeable when comparing the screenshots I have attached. Hopefully this new
information helps to track down the bug that is causing the lines above in the
AOO configuration file to be corrupted.
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