I can reproduce it... It really seems related to the size AND to the path of the file as Malone bug #25702 and OpenOffice.org bug #62648 (about a Ubuntu build) seems to imply... Probably the thumbnail image cache of Impress is invoked more often for big images and it doesn't like the ../ path for some reasons.
OpenOffice.org bug #63299 has a dbg trace on Dapper: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1239378240 (LWP 25509)] 0xadd6c664 in component_writeInfo () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so (gdb) bt #0 0xadd6c664 in component_writeInfo () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so #1 0xadd6c85a in component_writeInfo () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so #2 0xadd8980e in component_writeInfo () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so #3 0xadd8e12f in component_writeInfo () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so #4 0xadd8e144 in component_writeInfo () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so #5 0xb7d80fc2 in Help::ShowTip () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680li.so #6 0xb7d8d07a in Timer::Timeout () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680li.so #7 0xb7d8d25c in AutoTimer::operator= () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680li.so #8 0xb3d9d529 in SalData::Timeout () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvclplug_gen680li.so #9 0xb3d9d514 in SalData::Timeout () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvclplug_gen680li.so #10 0xb423270a in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvclplug_gtk680li.so #11 0xb52ea9a0 in ?? () #12 0xb4a8e910 in ?? () ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #13 0x00000002 in ?? () #14 0xb537d254 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #15 0xb7219260 in __pthread_mutex_unlock_usercnt () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #16 0xbf989d64 in ?? () #17 0xb531f3a8 in g_timeout_dispatch (source=0xb537d548, callback=0x4e0050, user_data=0x0) at gmain.c:3292 Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) This seems not reproducible in the official builds, so this is Ubuntu- specific. Malone bug #35313 is related to this problem but has no more information. I will post a dbg trace today. -- impress crashing https://launchpad.net/bugs/49432 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs