Bjoern Michaelsen committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master":
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1889c1af41650576a29c587a0b2cdeaf0d297587 lp#527938, debian#602953, fdo#33266, i#105408: do not crash on clicking bibliography when base isnt installed -- 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/527938 Title: Writer crashes when trying to set up Bibliography Database soffice.bin crashed with SIGABRT in __kernel_vsyscall() Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Fix Released Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Confirmed Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “libreoffice” package in Debian: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 Version table: *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) What is expected to happen in LibreOffice Writer via the Terminal: lowriter -nologo click Tools -> Bibliography Database is that it does not crash. 4) What happens instead is it crashes every time. This is a default install with no extra extensions installed. WORKAROUND: Installing libreoffice-base makes the issue go away. Original Reporter Comments: The message on the console is: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::loader::CannotActivateFactoryException' Reproduced also with 3.2.0rc4-1ubuntu ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Feb 25 20:33:28 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/527938/+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
