https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54674
Bug #: 54674
Summary: Crash When Cutting or Dragging/Dropping Cells with
Formulas under Mac 10.8.1
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 3.6.1.2 release
Platform: x86 (IA32)
OS/Version: Mac OS X (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: critical
Priority: medium
Component: Spreadsheet
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
I think this bug only affects Mac OS 10.8.x using any Java version compatible
with that Mac OS X version. Theoretically, it might affect Mac 10.7 using the
latest Java SE downloaded from Oracle.
Create a new spreadsheet document. Type "1" in a cell. Select the cell below
it and enter a formula to take the cell above and add "1" to it. You should
now have a cell with "1" followed by "2." Select the cell with "2" in it and
copy it down until you have a list of calculated numbers. Ten or more should
be enough.
Now, select that entire range of cells. Then either do: 1) Edit -> Cut; 2)
Drag and drop the selection to somewhere else in that spreadsheet or 3) Hit the
Mac delete key. In every LO spreadsheet I have (I have a lot), it immediately
crashes LO. I haven't been able to recreate the crash using just text and
numbers in cells. I need to have formulas. Also, it won't crash with just one
cell involved. It must be formulas in multiple cells.
I had just updated to the latest version of Java released by Apple (via
Oracle)--2012-005--when I first noticed this problem. Unfortunately, I hadn't
been doing any editing of my spreadsheets since my update to Mac 10.8 from 10.7
in July. This morning I downgraded my Java to Apple 2012-004 (1.6.0_33). It
didn't make any difference--same crashes. I have no way to go back to Mac
10.7.x, so I don't know if this problem is based on the Mac 10.8 update or else
based in Java.
Now about Java on the Mac. When a Mac user downloads and installs Java
downloaded from Apple (even thought Apple gets it from Oracle), it's a full
Java install. Later, if a Mac user downloads the latest JRE from Oracle, that
version will only affect what is used by Web browsers. LO will will use the
full version obtained from Apple. If a Mac user gets a full Java SE version
from Oracle and installs it, then LO will use that version. The reason I'm
still leaning towards Java is because I seem to remember the same problem quite
a while ago in OpenOffice when I tried to completely disable Java.
If any Mac users read this, please try and recreate this bug using the process
descibed above. Then report your results along with the version of Mac OS and
LibreOffice you are using as well as the version of Java reported in the
LibreOffice Java preference.
Right now, this is killing my productivity. I'm a college prof who teaches
Accounting and Finance. I do all of my class handouts and exams using
LibreOffice Spreadsheet and I'm always cutting/pasting, dragging/dropping or
delete large numbers of cells. I hate having to go back to Excel until this
gets fixed, but that's what I'm facing. I hate Excel since "the Ribbon."
Thanks for any help.
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