[Bug 183018] OpenOffice crash when using background image

[Richard Hirner]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

OpenOffice crashes due to an extreme memory leak when I use a page
background image.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Write a document, watch top (Xorg and soffice.bin memory usage stay in normal range)
2) Apply a page background image that covers the whole page (e.g. 72 dpi png for the whole page)
3) Scroll around, add some paragraphs.... watch top: Xorg memory usage increases by 5 MB for each new line! Scrolling a few pages up&down increases memory use by 300 MB
4) Computer begins to swap and Xorg becomes unusable. Only solution: killall -9 soffice.bin / Xorg from SSH

Bug appears with at least these OpenOffice versions, both from Ubuntu 7.10:
* AMD64: openoffice.org-core 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3, Tue Nov 27 19:01:17 GMT 2007
* i386: openoffice.org-core 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3, Tue Nov 27 18:52:42 GMT 2007

I can give you the document/images if you need them to reproduce the
bug.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 15 01:05:03 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmmon nvidia
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux bunker 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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OpenOffice crash when using background image
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