Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.1.4.2 calc consistently crashing on row deletion

2016-06-29 Thread M Henri Day
2016-06-29 19:09 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies : > Hi Henri :) > Thanks :) I still think your idea is likely to be the winner, the idea > about switching to using the PPA rather than the upstream version. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > On 29 June 2016 at 15:35, M Henri Day

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.1.4.2 calc consistently crashing on row deletion

2016-06-29 Thread M Henri Day
2016-06-29 16:20 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies : > Hi :) > Java is notoriously unreliable with many intermittently and > situation-specific problems. Sadly it's not the case that if it works in > one place that it can be relied on anywhere else. > It's quirky problematic nature is more

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.1.4.2 calc consistently crashing on row deletion

2016-06-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Java is notoriously unreliable with many intermittently and situation-specific problems. Sadly it's not the case that if it works in one place that it can be relied on anywhere else. It's quirky problematic nature is more like the problems with Flash, only much worse. Regards from TomD :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.1.4.2 calc consistently crashing on row deletion

2016-06-29 Thread M Henri Day
2016-06-29 15:57 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies : > Hi :) > Crashing used to be usually due to having Java active. > > Base often uses Java and so do screen-readers and such but almost > everything 'normal' users do doesn't need Java at all. It's possible to > just switch Java off in

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.1.4.2 calc consistently crashing on row deletion

2016-06-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Crashing used to be usually due to having Java active. Base often uses Java and so do screen-readers and such but almost everything 'normal' users do doesn't need Java at all. It's possible to just switch Java off in just LibreOffice before considering removing it entirely. If it grumbles

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.1.4.2 calc consistently crashing on row deletion

2016-06-26 Thread Bruce Hohl
Tom, I just updated to LO 5.1.4.2 from the Ubuntu PPA's on Ubuntu 14.04 (really LXLE Posh). I checked deleting rows from a few worksheets and encountered no errors. If you are using Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based OS you might try getting LO from the PPAs per the links below as these are packaged for

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.1.4.2 calc consistently crashing on row deletion

2016-06-26 Thread M Henri Day
2016-06-26 0:03 GMT+02:00 Tom Cloyd : > Yeah, apparently not. That's just plain dumb. The error message is long > and full of technogarble. I'm not about to attempt to flip back and forth > to another window or workspace (95 mouseclicks, anyone?) to type it out. I > took a

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 5.1.4.2 calc consistently crashing on row deletion

2016-06-25 Thread M Henri Day
2016-06-25 0:54 GMT+02:00 Tom Cloyd : > I downloaded the *.deb installer yesterday, and installed it a little over > an hour ago. It's crashed 6 times in the first hour. No matter how I try to > delete a spreadsheet row, I get a modal window with an error message. >