Hi Chris, Thanx for your help and patience.
I was indeed affected by bug #994921 I installed the symbols for libreoffice following your instructions and filled up bug #1370104 Regards. -- 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
