Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB

From	Flo <debianflo@gmx.at>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB
Date	2017-09-12 18:40 +0200
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On 09/11/17 14:52, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 09:21:00AM +0100, Joe wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Sep 2017 23:00:49 +0200
>> Flo <debianflo@gmx.at> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Libreoffice is working for me except for Base.
>>>
>>> This means when I want to create a (or use an existing) database
>>> libreoffice crashes immediately without giving any information.
>>>
>>> I open libreoffice and click to open a new database (HSQLDB Embedded).
>                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> Then Finish and I am asked about the name of the database. I enter
>>> the name, click Save and then comes the crash. A database file is
>>> created, though.
>>>
>>> I am using Debian testing.
>>>
>>> I haven't found anything in the web. Can anyone help me?
>>>
>>
>> Sadly, no, Base is extremely flaky, and doesn't seem to have many
>> users. Chicken and egg.
> 
> And beides Base being flaky, if you run i386 you run into the still unfixed
> regression in the kernel breaking Java (well, stuff embedding the JVM) on
> i386. (not on amd64).
> 
> And given the internal db is hsqldb - so *is* Java - and thus the JVM gets
> initialized...
> 
> https://lwn.net/Articles/727206/
> https://lwn.net/Articles/727703/
>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
> See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865303 and "friends".
> Somewhere there is also the boot option to disable the security(!) fix
> to make Java work again.
> 

This was a good hint. I played around a lot but the only thing I need to 
do is to use an older kernel.

I read in one of the articles that this should be solved at 4.13 and I 
installed such a kernel from the experimental release but it didn't 
change anything.

So for right now I can live with that. Though I don't like to run a 
kernel with some known security issues. And I hope it will get solved in 
the, hopefully, near future.

The other option would be to patch the kernel and to compile it myself ...

> Your fault for still using i386 then. (Don't get me wrong: the regression
> should be fixed, nevertheless, sure.)
> 

It's my old laptop. Still working ... .

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Flo.

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libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB Flo <debianflo@gmx.at> - 2017-09-10 23:10 +0200
  Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-09-11 10:30 +0200
    Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> - 2017-09-11 15:10 +0200
      Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-09-11 18:10 +0200
      Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB Flo <debianflo@gmx.at> - 2017-09-12 18:40 +0200
        Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-09-17 12:00 +0200
  Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-11 19:30 +0200
    Re: libreoffice base crashes when writing HSQLDB Flo <debianflo@gmx.at> - 2017-09-12 18:40 +0200

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