Openoffice 3 Calc crashes immediately upon editing a cell

[Wayne Sierke]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 14:41 +0930, Wayne Sierke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After updating to 7.2-STABLE (i386) + ports and updating
> openoffice.org-3-devel, Calc crashes as soon as editing of a cell is
> instigated, whether by pressing a character key, F2 or double-clicking a
> cell. Modifying cell contents by copy/paste, fill, etc. doesn't invoke
> the crash. Quick edits in the other apps seem ok so this problem appears
> to be specific to editing of Calc cells afaict. 
> 
> 3.0.1 installed from a package suffered the same problem so I'm assuming
> that the problem stems from one of the dependencies but I have no idea
> which one.
> 
> Below I've included the output from gdb attaching to soffice.bin
> process, and also from launching soffice.bin from gdb (using a modified
> soffice script).
> 
> I see a similar problem was reported earlier this year ("scalc crashes
> when trying to edit cell") but with no follow-up. I've discovered that I
> can use either of the following workarounds:
> 
>         OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none
>         SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen
> 
> (I've only been running OO under Gnome desktop so far.)
> 
> Any suggestions as to the likely culprit or further debugging guidance
> would be gratefully appreciated.

Following up for archives.

Never did manage to determine the cause or find a solution but recent
updates of ports including updating to openoffice.org-3.2.20090826
appears to have resolved the problem.