<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Michael:<br><div><div>On 2011-05-09, at 5:04 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Peter,<br><br>On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 16:14 -0400, Peter Teeson wrote:</div></blockquote><snip><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Right - so, we think this is font related; so presumably you have some<br>fun fonts on one system, but not another. Hopefully this re-assures you<br>that this is a somewhat less widespread problem (?) :-)<br><br><blockquote type="cite">So I hypothesize my regular system is foobar in some way that kills LO<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3.2.2.<br></blockquote><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I suspect just some magic font oddness.<br></div></blockquote><br>It was indeed!!</div><div>I compared the regular OS X 10.6 Fonts directory with the clean one andthey were identical.</div><div>Then I looked at ~/libray/Fonts and lo and behold there was a FreeSans.ttf one on the regular system </div><div>and not on the clean one.</div><div>Removing that font made everything work correctly!</div><div><br></div><div>All of this done without having to go through the torture of gdb on the command line <grin></div><div><br></div><div>As an experiment I put the font back into ~/Library/Fonts and launched LO</div><div>The opened a new Text document. When I scrolled up through the Font menu</div><div>from the Times item LO crashed the same way!!</div><div><br></div><div><div>Apple's Font Book application has a File/Validate File... item so I tried it with the offending font.</div><div>It told me that there was something wrong with it. Here is a tiff from Capture.</div><div><br></div><div><img height="442" width="432" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="fb132961-7b79-414d-97c2-732923f206d5" src="cid:EE0C95D9-35A9-476C-9B0D-9645E5EAD8C8@no-domain-set-bellcanada"></div><div><br></div><div><div>Now that we know the exact cause of the problem, and since it happens on 3.4 as well</div><div>and in at least Calc and Writer <b>where do we go from here?</b></div><div><b><br></b></div></div></div><div>respect...</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div></body></html>