I can confirm this bug. I'm running a completely fresh install of Ubuntu Edgy Eft on a Toshiba laptop with an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M integrated graphics card.
This happens only in an XGL session, not in an ordinary Gnome session. The first few times I tried to open an Openoffice document file, XGL crashed and sent me back to session login. When logging in again there was a huge crash report (some 18MB). The crash reports stopped coming when the computer started freezing until I do a hard reboot. The screen freezes with artifacts that clearly show an error with the graphics card. Abiword crashes in the same manner. There is one odd thing about this, however. I went to another computer and resaved the same document, but with the Web Layout view turned OFF so that I could see each page. It's about a 130 page document. When I opened the document again in XGL, it did not crash and everything worked fine. I tried opening and closing it several times, rebooting, logging out and back into the session, I can't make it crash again. Something about the Web Layout view seems to kill the graphics driver. Even in ordinary Gnome, OpenOffice always churns a lot when you open a long document in Web Layout. It might be a bug in both openoffice and the ATI drivers. -- Open office crashes and takes Xgl with it https://launchpad.net/bugs/63830 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
