LO 7.3 still crashing on macOS Monterey

For the record, LO 7.3 is still crashing on my 3-year-old MacBook Pro
running macOS Monterey. For now, I’ll stick with 7.2.5 and do any necessary
7.3 testing & screenshots on Windows or Linux.

If / when I have the ambition, I’ll follow up to see if I can fix this
locally, for example using options in Safe Mode, resetting user profile,
whatever. And check bug reports, etc. Right now, I have other things to do.

Jean

Could you test to see if it still crashes when disable Skia (via Preference > LibreOffice > View" dialog.

There are several bug reports with regarding the crash on mac with Skia and it is now disabled for 7.3 by the following commit, which may be avalible on 7.3.1 release:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-7-3&id=290957ad1383565c97201360defdeae9ae5ef502

于 2022年2月3日 GMT+08:00 上午10:50:45, Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com> 写到:

Kevin,
Thank you. I disabled Skia and LO seems to be working okay now.
Jean

Hello Kevin

Pardon my ignorance, but what is Skia? There are several options in Preferences > LibreOffice > View. Which one do I disable?

Regards
Peter Schofield
psauthor@gmail.com
Technical Writer, LO Documentation Team

Hello Jean and the Team

I tested LO 7.3 on my new M1 MacBook Air running macOS 12.2 Monterey.
Worked on LG7307 file for over 3 hours. LO 7.3 did not crash and I closed LO normally. My changes were all there when I opened the same file on my Mac mini.
My conclusion is that LO 7.3 on an Intel powered Mac running Monterey has a problem.

Regards
Peter Schofield
psauthor@gmail.com
Technical Writer, LO Documentation Team

于 2022年2月3日 GMT+08:00 上午10:50:45, Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com> 写到:

For the record, LO 7.3 is still crashing on my 3-year-old MacBook Pro
running macOS Monterey. For now, I’ll stick with 7.2.5 and do any necessary
7.3 testing & screenshots on Windows or Linux.

If / when I have the ambition, I’ll follow up to see if I can fix this
locally, for example using options in Safe Mode, resetting user profile,
whatever. And check bug reports, etc. Right now, I have other things to do.

Jean

Could you test to see if it still crashes when disable Skia (via Preference > LibreOffice > View" dialog.

There are several bug reports with regarding the crash on mac with Skia and it is now disabled for 7.3 by the following commit, which may be avalible on 7.3.1 release:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-7-3&id=290957ad1383565c97201360defdeae9ae5ef502

> Hello Kevin
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is Skia? There are several options in Preferences > LibreOffice > View. Which one do I disable?
>
> Regards
> Peter Schofield
> psauthor@gmail.com
> Technical Writer, LO Documentation Team
>

Skia is a graphics engine. Blog post from 2019 about the project: https://llunak.blogspot.com/2019/11/skia-branch-merged-to-master.html

Deactivate every option that has Skia in it. The end result should be that there is a text "Skia is currently disabled" and in your About dialog you don't see Skia for the VCL information.

Ilmari