Could you think of a quick and dirty hack to work around this? I'm building my own OOo, so I wouldn't mind using a hack as long as it works :). Sadly I'm stuck with OOo 3.2.1 for quite some time.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Michael Stahl <michael.x.st...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 06/05/2011 14:39, Andor E wrote: >> Hi, >> we have created an extension for OpenOffice.org, that implements a >> custom mail merge function. For every record in a datasource the >> function appends all the pages from the source document to an output >> document. The function uses insertDocumentFromURL. >> After 200-300 loops OpenOffice.org crashes with a SIGSGEV in >> SwModify::_Remove. As far as I could ascertain, the Iterator >> pClientIters gets corrupted. Some of its elements aren't valid >> pointers. I guess, that this is a racing condition. Probably more than >> one element from the iterator are removed at the same time. >> Do you know a way to avoid this? Is it possible to disable the >> SwModify functionality during the processing of the document? >> >> Thanks >> >> eymux > > http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105557 > > this is a known race condition (well, actually two different kinds of race > condition, occuring in most of the writer API implementation): > > it's only partially fixed since OOo 3.3; actually, the only way i know to > reliably crash due to this is to run our Bookmark unit test (before OOo 3.3). > you're probably the first user to find it :) > > only known workaround is to restart OOo when it crashes. > > -- > "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out > of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how > deeply he or she submerges that knowing." > -- Jonathan Lethem (quoting Mary Shelley) > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org > with Subject: help > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
