Abiword freezes when you open an ODT document without abiword-plugins installed

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I can't provide a stack trace, but I think the subject of this bug is pretty descriptive and I provided the 3 basic steps required to test it.

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It didn't crash, it froze.

Like it says in the subject. Please stop closing this bug and actually read it just because it's lacking a crash report.

* THERE IS NO CRASH, IT FROZE
* THIS IS REPRODUCABLE

REPRODUCIBLE. my bad.

There's no hang here while open an ODT file, since you don't want to get a trace, i'll leave this open to someone who can reproduce the problem, thanks you.

Are you able to reproduce this after installing abiwrod-plugins ? The Ubuntu package for Ubuntu does not ship the ODT plugin by default, this might be your problem. In that case, this is a duplicate of bug #164232.

Sorry, the bug number should have been: bug #24195.

This bug is confirmed known by upstream - see http://bugzilla.abiword.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10511 and http://bugzilla.abiword.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11231

Jérôme Guelfucci wrote on 2007-12-22:
> Are you able to reproduce this after installing abiwrod-plugins ? The Ubuntu package for Ubuntu does not ship the ODT plugin by default, this might be your problem. In that case, this is a duplicate of bug #24195.

This bug isn't a duplicate of bug #24195 - that bug is about including OpenDocument plugin in main abiword package, while title of this bug is "freezes when you open an ODT document *without* abiword-plugins installed". This is an upstream bug - AbiWord should don't try to open .zip files (OpenDocument files are archived in .zip archive) if needed plugins are not installed. Look for more info in upstream bugreports.

This bug still happens to me on Intrepid.

Plugins aren' shipped in a different package anymore, so it should be fixed.