Connect the last side of the last curve to curve one and the end that doesn'tħ0. Continue with this until you reach the end.Ĩ. Connect curve 2 from the other end that one is connected to curve 3ħ. Now order does matter from here on, so think of these as labeled 1-n where n isĦ. Choose any of the 3 types of curved connectors and place on the draw fieldĤ. I have also come up with more in depth instructions to replicate the error.Ģ. I have also tried it with some other item in between the two curved connectors and it doesn’t crash, further backing up the idea Joe gave. This error seems to come up not only with two connectors but up to 5+ and with any combination of curved connectors. This error seems to be just as Joe said, the system is looping around the curved connectors and segfaults. I was able to replicate this error and found out a way to replicate it it consistently. If the reference chain (or loop) is broken by removing or misspelling any of the start- or end- attributes, then the document will load. Looking at the xml from the reporter's crash documents, it seems the common feature is that the two connectors refer to each other through the draw:start- or draw:end- attributes. If the attribute is changed back to the correct spelling, then the document will crash on open. Tweaking the xml to remove the attribute draw:start-shape='id1' or changing it to draw:x-start-shape='id1' allows the document to open without crashing. Looking at the document xml of my crash document, I find the connector objects: I was also able to create a new Draw document that crashed, but I could not find a recipe that produces a crash file reproducibly: many attempts worked, even though the content and layout were similar to the crash documents (two standard connectors, three sides each).

I was able to reproduce the crash(es) with OO 4.1.1 on Linux x86, opening the crash documents attached here. It is quite tricky to arrange them like that because of the autorouting.īy the way: Is there any option to get some logging or debug information in this case? My observation is that the crash is caused by two interconnected connectors where each of them consists of exactly three points (See screenshots). The type of the arrow doesn't seem to matter. I tried it with standard and curved connectors. I was able to reproduce this behaviour with new documents and made screenshots before closing (See attachment).

(The file can be rescued when one of the connectors is deleted from the content.xml). The crash seems to be caused by two connectors that connect to each other in a special way So I retrieved an old version from version control and investigated on the difference in the content.xml file. I have a Draw document that suddenly started to crash Draw without any comment, when the file is opened.

Openoffice drawing connectors