OOo writer entering infinite loop when scrolling an embedded Impress document (OOo bug 59836)

[Erwin J. Prinz]

All:

There is a reproducible bug in OOo 2.0.1 (x86 Linux) which I have reduced to the
following steps:

1. Open presentation at:
http://home.austin.rr.com/prinz/impress.odp
It contains a graphic, a text field, and a rectangle.

2. Open writer document at:
http://home.austin.rr.com/prinz/writer.odt

It contains the graphic of step 1 inserted in a frame as "Impress Document".

3. Put cursor into the line under the heading "Blah blah". Hit <enter> a few
times. Frame moves down. Then, hit <backspace> a few times. Frame moves up, and
size of inserted graphic becomes much smaller.

4. Resize graphic. Put cursor back into the line under the heading. Hit <enter>
until the graphic should move to the next page. The program now enters an
infinite loop, with 100% CPU utilization. The behavior is mostly reproducible.
It may be necessary to remove and add a few empty paragraphs such that the frame
changes the page a few times (from page 1 to page 2 and back).

I have added a bug with openoffice.org (http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59836)
since it is not specific to Fedora Core 4. It also occurs in the Linux RPMs distributed
by openoffice.org. But, it does not occur in the Windows version.

Best regards, Erwin