https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152166
Bug ID: 152166
Summary: Writer document Crashes when inserting an Index (Table
of Contents, or other index)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.4.2.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: kb.cl...@gmail.com
Description:
I can add a Table of Contents at the END of the document, but if I add it to
any other place in the document writer freezes upon clicking the OK button of
the "Insert Table of Contents" dialogue.
I made a pretty standard document from scratch. There is a simple title page,
then a table of contents, figures index and tables index. Started to write, all
worked well, indexes updated without problem.
When I finished the 55 pages document, i wanted to update the indices, and then
noticed there was a yellow triangle visible in the context menu of the table of
contents, clicked update, document froze. Ok restart, recover document, deleted
the ToC, wanted to reinsert, and since then writer freezes when clicking the ok
button of the ToC insert dialogue.
I played around for hours, went back to stable version of LO, reinstalled,
started in safe mode, changed headings, deleted unused styles, removed direct
formatting, checked all styles, deleted parts of the document content for
testing, modified the options of the ToC insert dialogue, changed settings in
the user profile (JAVA), nothing helped a bit. I found out I can add a ToC at
the End of the document, but everywhere else the ToC dialogue freezes as
described.
I use LO for a few month now and am incredible frightended to use this software
further. Its inherently unstable, and gives not the slightest hint what might
be wrong in the document, it simply freezes forever. If this would have been an
imported / converted document with difficult arrangements I could possibly
understand, but I made a standard document with 2 levels of headlines, header,
footer, titlepage, ToC, ToF, ToT, tables, bullet lists, images. Really nothing
fancy at all. And all was made from scratch without "importing" some difficulty
via the clipboard, no direct formattings, all styled - and still this program
hangs. This is terrifying as obviously the mere basics of LOW simply do not
work.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open ToC dialogue to insert ToC on any other than the last page.
2. Click enter on the ToC dialogue
Actual Results:
Writer freezes. Need to close the program. Windows report the program as not
responsive - you wanna wait or terminate? Terminate.
Expected Results:
Open the document again, which then recovers it successfully.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
Version: 7.4.2.3 (x86) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 382eef1f22670f7f4118c8c2dd222ec7ad009daf
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 22621; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (de_AT); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
I tried with ampty new documents, and with other documents. ToC was not the
issue there, so this clearly is something in my document, which - as described
- could be used as an example for editing LO docs.
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