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FS#7452 - I can't see characters in openoffice 2.2.1 from testing repo

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Adam Pawelec (proktor) - Sunday, 17 June 2007, 10:54 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 22 June 2007, 08:42 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I've got following problem: when I'm typing characters in new openoffice 2.2.1, I can't see letters. It's look like font color is white, but it is set to black. When I make mistake in word or scroll the document the characters become visible. But, the next letters which I'm typing are also invisible and I have to scroll document again to see anything. Setting page background to another color doesn't help, so I'm sure the problem isn't with font color.


Additional info:
* package: openoffice-base
This task depends upon

Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Friday, 22 June 2007, 08:42 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  new version going to testing.
Comment by Adam Pawelec (proktor) - Sunday, 17 June 2007, 10:59 GMT
I should add that selection highlight is also invisible.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 17 June 2007, 11:42 GMT
known issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=78417
Comment by Adam Pawelec (proktor) - Monday, 18 June 2007, 11:53 GMT
OK. So are you going to recompile OpenOffice.org with older version of gcc before move it to extra repo or wait until developers of OO fix this bug?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 18 June 2007, 12:30 GMT
No way we're going back to an older compiler while many things are already compiled with this one. This could be a regression in gcc aswell though. I haven't seen this bugreport at debian, who also use gcc 4.2 nowadays. They use a more recent snapshot of gcc, something we could try also.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 18 June 2007, 22:17 GMT
Hmm, something came to my mind, Hussam says he can't reproduce it on his system...
When we built OpenOffice 2.2.0, we built it using ccache with gcc 4.1.2. When we rebuilt 2.2.1, it was built from the same chroot on my system, with the same instance of ccache, which is full of files from 2.2.0 compiled with gcc 4.1.2. This could be the source of the problem, probably recompilation with a clean empty ccache can fix this bug.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 21:37 GMT
Tried this:
- update gcc to latest 4.2 branch snapshot
- clean ccache
- rebuild openoffice

problem is still here :(
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 17:15 GMT
Further info: convering the text with something (e.g. another window) and then uncovering it makes it visible. THe problem seems to be with updating the GUI to show what's been typed.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 17:26 GMT
PLD Linux seems to have a patch for this. It's a regression in gcc 4.2, Hussam was looking into it yesterday. Expect a new build appearing in testing in the next few days which should fix this one.

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