Hi,
On 17.01.2013 03:16, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Regina Henschel
<rb.hensc...@t-online.de> wrote:
Hi Rob,
I had the crash problem too, but unfortunately I do not have the user
profile any longer. But I can list some things, which I usually do with each
version:
Wow, this is quite a list!
So let's play detective here, and "think like a bug". If something
went wrong, what are likely causes?
-- The profile conversion can't be totally broken or it would fail for
every upgrade
-- It cannot depend on a very rare situation, like a specific macro
import or a rarely used extension, otherwise we would not see many
reports at all.
So what is in the middle? Volume of changes? Exceeding a specific
string length? Some data type conversion issue? Locale dependency?
Character set conversion?
If it is any single cause then it could be narrowed down by a binary
search style set of tests. Tedious, but doable.
- Add name to user data, turn off "Help Agent", increase Graphics cache to
maximum, number of objects to 100, set number of undo steps to 20.
- In Pathes: Add AutoCorrect, AutoText, Gallery, and Templates from a folder
outside my home directory, do not make it the default. Set Graphics to the
default Windows folder for personal pictures.
- Set Macro Security to Medium.
- Set JRE to Java 1.6.0.37.
- Have Online Update to check automatically every week.
- Clear checkbox "Size optimation for ODF settings".
- Set HTML to Export OOoWriter and Character set UTF-8.
- Change Languages to not use the "default" item, enable both items in
enhanced language support.
- Set personal document templates from the added path (see above) as default
template.
- Define own toolbar in Draw and in Impress with commands for macros.
- Import about 10 macro libraries.
- In Draw and Impress: Dock toolbar 'Options' to the left and customize it.
Customize the drawing toolbar to show the toolboxes instead of single
shapes. Drag the zoom sub-toolbar from the standard bar and dock it. Stack
Page pane and Style&Formatting window.
- Customize standard toolbar: remove, disable and add commands.
In Writer dock table and numbering toolbar to the right, Style&Formatting
window to the left, show drawing toolbar, customize standard toolbar, define
own toolbar for macros.
- Install a German or an English language pack, depending on which is the
basis installation. Make sure the dictionary is installed and install it, if
it is missing. Keep the default installed extensions.
Including the recent document list, this results always in a
registrymodifications.xcu with size around 800KB.
All that was done on WinXP. [I'm now on Win7.]
I think, this might give you an imagination of "highly customized".
Kind regards
Regina
Rob Weir schrieb:
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/15/2013 12:48 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote:
On 14.01.2013 22:50, Hagar Delest wrote:
Le 14/01/2013 12:06, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann a écrit :
Does exist a description (may be inclusive a blob of the former user
profile) to reproduce the problem?
Sadly, no.
XP seems the version where it occurs the most.
Was the profile migration problem also reported on Mac, Linux or
FreeBSD? If it was mostly an XP problem then the observation by Stephan
Bergmann mentioned in
http://ooo-forums.apache.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55017&p=242599#p242632
could be real the root cause of all our profile migration related
instabilities.
as an FYI...I use linux 32 bit rpm, and have never had a user profile
issue,
that I know of :]
I've never seen the issue either, on Windows XP, 7 or 8.
But I do have a clean XP virtual machine image that I can run some
tests on. If anyone has a suggestion on how one can force the problem
to occur, let me know.
I assume it is some form of:
1) Install OOo 3.3.0
2) Do a bunch of stuff that triggers profile changes
3) Upgrade to AOO 3.4.1
4) Kaboom!
But what are some things I should do for step #2?
I now have an user profile which causes constantly crashes.
It had been "created" on a Windows 7 machine where I had OOo 3.3, AOO 3.4 and
now AOO 3.4.1 installed.
I did not remember what I did in step #2, but it was very little - I think.
I am now ready to debug the crash. It happens somehow when trying to access
certain installed extensions. This is just the first glance. Thus, do not nail
me down on it, when I find out that it is something else ;-)
I keep you informed.
Best regards, Oliver.
