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When I start selecting text (size of more then a paragraph) in LibreOffice, the entire system freezes.

If I use the mouse and left click or press Ctrl+C, the system freezes so I cannot finish selecting.

If I use LibreOffice's menu command Select all or CTRL+A no freeze happens. As a workaround, I switched to Google Docs until I can use LibreOffice.

These are my laptop details:

  • Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 540 @ 2.53GHz × 4
  • Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 32-bit
  • ram 488,0 GB
  • VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)
  • Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T410
  • Kernel driver in use: nouveau
  • Memory: total 3,8G used 3,3G free 556M shared 226M buffers 66M cached 562M -/+ buffer: 2,7G 1,2G Swap: 3,9G 1,1G 2,7G

Ubuntu newly installed, only one OS, I deleted Windows to install Ubuntu.

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  • maybe problem with memory. Run memtest86 – jet Sep 07 '15 at 22:26
  • Try this: In Acrobat Reader -- choose File -- Save As or File -- Save As Other -- Text. In Libreoffice Writer -- choose File -- Open -- File.txt. – kyodake Sep 07 '15 at 23:04
  • i think the problem is not with Acrobat. I removed Libre Office and intalled Open office - same issue even if Acrobat is closed. IF copy big chank of text laptop freezes. If I copy slamm parts no freez happened. But this is stil very inconvenient forsing to go back to Windows. – Anton Burkov Sep 08 '15 at 06:13
  • There are a few unclear yet important facts missing from your question. I assume you want to copy text through the clipboard. Which application is the source, which is the destination. How do you copy and paste the text – Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, middle click with the mouse, a menu action? At which point exactly does your system freeze? Which parts freeze – just either or both applications, the whole desktop session, the whole system (verify with a switch to a virtual terminal (e. g. with Ctrl+Alt+F1))? Could you please clear those up? – David Foerster Sep 08 '15 at 16:31
  • thanks, David, for your questions. I address them one by one – Anton Burkov Sep 10 '15 at 07:19
  • the source - LIBREOFFICE, DESTINATION DOES NOT MATTER. WHENEVER I COPY MORE OR LESS LONG TEXT (LONGER THEN ONE PARAGRAPH) FROM LIBREOFFICE FILE LAPTOP IMMEDIATELY FREESES.. I USE MOUSE. At which point exactly does your system freeze? - AS SOON AS I HIGHLIGHT BIG ENOUGH CHANK OF TEXT, SOMETIME IT FREEZES SO THAT I CANNOT FINISH HIGHLIGHTING ENOUGH TEXT WHICH I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT. Which parts freeze – just either or both applications, the whole desktop session, the whole system - ENTIRE SYSTEM, I CANNOT MOVE ANYTHING BUT MOUSE COURSOR, EVEN THIS MOVES SLOWLY ORCOPLETELY FREEZES TOO. – Anton Burkov Sep 10 '15 at 07:27
  • system freeze if I highlight by using mouse, or CTRL+C+down. If I use LibreOffice menu comand Highligh all or CNTR+A - no freeze happens. – Anton Burkov Sep 10 '15 at 07:46
  • The best way to add additional information to your question is by editing it, with the edit button. It is better visible that way, and comments are mainly for secondary, temporary purposes. Comments are removed under a variety of circumstances. Anything important to your question should be in the question itself. – guntbert Sep 10 '15 at 08:54
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    Please [edit] your question and add output of lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D' terminal command. – Pilot6 Sep 11 '15 at 13:12
  • Please also add the output of free --human. Please [edit] your answer to reflect this info. – Fabby Sep 11 '15 at 14:48

3 Answers3

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Install the video driver by running

sudo apt-get install nvidia-304

and reboot.

I am suggesting 304, because I know that it works better that 340 on that card.

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I had the same thing. First using LibreOffice, which i uninstalled. Then after installing Openoffice. Selecting a piece of text in order to copy it everything froze. My problem was solved by turning off "Transparency" which can be found in "Tools-Options-View". Clearly a graphical issue indeed.

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I had the same problem. I first tried deselecting transparency in Libre Office, that worked. I then turned transparency back on and updated the driver per the answer above and that worked also. Some of my details are:

albert@dv4-1412:~$ lspci -k | grep -EA2 'VGA|3D'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98M [GeForce G 105M] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30f7
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau


albert@dv4-1412:~$ free --human
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2.0G       746M       1.2G       5.6M        53M       330M
-/+ buffers/cache:       362M       1.6G
Swap:         2.0G         0B       2.0G
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