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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by "Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org> on 2016/02/11 22:58:09 UTC
BZ 125501 (was RE: Where to start?)
My reading of the bug report is that it is entirely about OS/2 and has nothing to do with Windows.
I suppose the only question is whether that created a regression on 4.1.2 on any non-OS/2 platform.
Do we know if Yuri (or someone) merged those changes to the AOO410 branch before AOO 4.1.2 was released?
- Dennis
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> Also we could use a verification of resolution on the Spell Check issue:
> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125501
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> from a Windows builder.
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Re: BZ 125501 (was RE: Where to start?)
Posted by Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com>.
[top posting]
I corrected this in my 2:10P response. This was NOT the correct
issue number.
Please see:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201602.mbox/browser
On 02/11/2016 03:50 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>> My reading of the bug report is that it is entirely about OS/2 and
>> has nothing to do with Windows.
>
> Correct. That issue has nothing to do with the "famous" profile
> corruption bug. Simply, the so-called "Category B" modules were not
> built on OS/2 so the spell checker was not available there.
>
>> I suppose the only question is whether that created a regression
>> on 4.1.2 on any non-OS/2 platform.
>
> No. All changes only affected the OS/2 portion of Makefiles. And, in
> any case, this is a different bug (you do not get a broken
> spellchecker due to profile corruption; you get no spellchecker at
> all).
>
>> Do we know if Yuri (or someone) merged those changes to the AOO410
>> branch before AOO 4.1.2 was released?
>
> Yes of course. All issues with "4.1.2 Release blocker: +" were
> merged into 4.1.2. Some cleanup might be needed, and OS/2 is special
> since Yuri had divided his work into many issues, but as a general
> rule this is correct.
>
> So: there is a recurrent spellchecker bug, but it is not issue
> 125501, it is related with profile corruption and it has a dedicated
> issue in Bugzilla (which I can't look up at the moment, but
> definitely not this one).
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
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Re: BZ 125501 (was RE: Where to start?)
Posted by Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>.
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> My reading of the bug report is that it is entirely about OS/2 and has nothing to do with Windows.
Correct. That issue has nothing to do with the "famous" profile
corruption bug. Simply, the so-called "Category B" modules were not
built on OS/2 so the spell checker was not available there.
> I suppose the only question is whether that created a regression on 4.1.2 on any non-OS/2 platform.
No. All changes only affected the OS/2 portion of Makefiles. And, in any
case, this is a different bug (you do not get a broken spellchecker due
to profile corruption; you get no spellchecker at all).
> Do we know if Yuri (or someone) merged those changes to the AOO410 branch before AOO 4.1.2 was released?
Yes of course. All issues with "4.1.2 Release blocker: +" were merged
into 4.1.2. Some cleanup might be needed, and OS/2 is special since Yuri
had divided his work into many issues, but as a general rule this is
correct.
So: there is a recurrent spellchecker bug, but it is not issue 125501,
it is related with profile corruption and it has a dedicated issue in
Bugzilla (which I can't look up at the moment, but definitely not this one).
Regards,
Andrea.
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Re: BZ 125501 (was RE: Where to start?)
Posted by Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>.
On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:58:09 -0800
"Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org> wrote:
> My reading of the bug report is that it is entirely about OS/2 and has nothing to do with Windows.
>
> I suppose the only question is whether that created a regression on 4.1.2 on any non-OS/2 platform.
>
> Do we know if Yuri (or someone) merged those changes to the AOO410 branch before AOO 4.1.2 was released?
>
> - Dennis
I had promised to upload John_Ha's analysis of some OO problems, in particular his findings on the "Spellcheck problem" and on the "vanishing pictures" problem. For reasons connected with real life neither he nor I followed up on this and then matter slipped our minds. I've reminded him of this and he promises a detailed write-up in 24 hours, which I'll post to this list for preliminary consideration.
>From Forum experience I can say that one aspect of the spellcheck problem, viz., that suddenly it ceases working, seems to arise mostly from over hasty close down of the computer, such as snapping a laptop lid shut before the hardware/software write buffers have flushed to disk (remember also that many modern disk drives have internal buffering and journalling to appear to speed matters up).
Advising users who regularly experience spellcheck loss to wait for a few seconds between closure of OpenOffice and power down seems to cure their problem. I would not be so rash as to claim that this is the universal cure-all for spellcheck problems, but that advice seems to cure the majority of "sudden disappearance of spellcheck" problems.
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