On 08/01/14 12:00, Winfried Donkers wrote: > The company I work for uses MS Visio to create illustrations, which are > embedded into Writer documents (and not saved separately as Visio document). > Since we started using LibreOffice versions later than 3.5 (I think), we have > seemingly random problems with LibreOffice freezing when opening an embedded > Visio object. > The problem is very hard to reproduce (I have been trying for months, and > have succeeded only once*), but it can occur multiple times on a single day > for a single user.
> I know that the SolarMutex issue is getting attention, and that area is far > beyond my capabilities. > But could there be a way to recognize these deadlocks and kill these > deadlocks without killing the LibreOffice application? not really. > Possibly, with help from the experts, I might be able to create a temporary > 'patch' ... > I have not created a bug report for this, since I could find no way to > reproduce the problem. Depending on your reaction(s) I will create the bug > report. it's usually possible to fix a deadlock from just a backtrace of all threads. you say you have a user who has been blessed by the gods with an ability to reproduce the problem, so give them an LO with debug symbols (perhaps use Kendy's fancy symbol-server thing or build it yourself), and once it's properly locked up attach Visual Studio (or windbg) and copy all the stacks and file a bug (CC: me). _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
