[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107719] New: Stability issues when working with masterdocuments

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107719

            Bug ID: 107719
           Summary: Stability issues when working with masterdocuments
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.3.2.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: dani3l.grigoras at gmail.com

Description:
It's impossible to work with masterdocuments on Windows 10, even if that means
importing just a few subdocuments (3 in my case) with no more than a few
hundred pages (250 to be precise), as LibreOffice crashes at some point while I
scroll down the masterdocument and edit the contents of the subdocuments
imported (tables, references, diagrams, styles, plain text).

As a general note, it's impossible for me to work with masterdocuments
containing many subdocuments (92) and many pages (3600 pages) on both Linux and
Windows, as LibreOffice either crashes (immediately on Windows 10), or, when it
does load them (as I managed on Windows 7 starting with LibreOffice 5.3) it
exported to PDF only 2600 pages out of 3600.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load 90+ subdocuments into a masterdocument, amounting to several thousand
pages (filled with tables, diagrams, equations, cross-references, bookmarks,
footnotes, etc.)
2. If LibreOffice does not crash while importing the subdocuments, then scroll
down the masterdocument to edit the contents, as many issues may be found (such
as badly layed out tables and figures, missing references) due to various
non-LibreOffice related reasons, such as things that were missed by the
technical writer at the subdocument level.
3. If LibreOffice does not crash during the editing of the contents imported
from the subdocuments, try exporting to PDF

Actual Results:  
LibreOffice crashes during the import of the subdocuments or during the editing
of the contents imported from the subdocuments or it fails to export a complete
PDF version.

Don't ask for samples as I work with highly confidential proprietary
information and it would be very difficult to create anonymized version.

Expected Results:
I would have expected to be able to work with masterdocuments and subdocuments
in LibreOffice by now. Currently I only have managed to do this with
LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 on Ubuntu 14 and the strange configuration reached on this
particular environment after various installs and uninstalls, upgrades and
downgrades. I could not replicate this environment even after I installed
Ubuntu 14 and LibreOffice 4.3.5.2 on a different computer (though I admit that
in a virtual machine). I'm afraid that if in the event of an unfortunate event
something bad will happen with this strange OS environment or the partition it
resides on I'll be unable to fulfill my most demanding job task, that of
publishing a large 3600-page databook to PDF format. Should I still rely on
fortune?


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: Yeah, I know that sometimes I have to reset my user profile
so that custom tables of contents are properly displayed, which is really lame.
I remember trying this so-called solution when working with masterdocuments,
but to no avail.

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/53.0

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