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Applications (Libreoffice Impress, Firefox) crash when working with large images #6042

Closed cshapeshifter closed 3 years ago

cshapeshifter commented 3 years ago

Libreoffice Impress crashes randomly but consistently when working on a slide show with large images embedded. It crashes quickly and with just this message on the command line: Gdk-Message: 15:19:54.909: Lost connection to Wayland compositor. I can't upload a sample slide show because of GitHub size limitations, but I can easily reproduce the crash via the following steps:

  1. Create a new empty Impress slide show.
  2. Open the following large image in Firefox: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg
  3. Right-click and "Copy Image", switch to Impress and Ctrl-V to insert the picture.
  4. Try editing the slide (move the picture, duplicate the slide...)
  5. Try saving the slide deck.

It might work fine for a while and not crash immediately. The crash is random, but it happens on average every second time I try to save the document and within less than a minute of trying to edit the slides.

I also had Firefox crash, for example when showing the linked picture in a tab and then opening another split window next to Firefox (so it had to resize). But Firefox crashes less frequently and less consistently. It's usually stable.

Package information:

libreoffice-fresh 7.1.0-1
linux 5.10.16.arch1-1
sway 1:1.5.1-1
swayidle 1.6-1
swaylock 1.5-1
wayland 1.19.0-1
wayland-protocols 1.20-1
xorg-xwayland 1.20.0.r844.g1e72c3ce8-1

This is a Dell XPS 2-in-1 7390 running Archlinux. I use sway with 'scale 3' on the display output.

Xyene commented 3 years ago

I was able to reproduce this crash on Sway master, but also on GNOME (mutter 3.38.3). This sounds like a LibreOffice bug, and should be reported to the LibreOffice developers.