LibreOffice Calc hangs on sort operation
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7
- LibreOffice Calc
Issue
- LibreOffice Calc hangs on sort operation
Resolution
An update to libreoffice-4.3.7.2 addresses this issue with the sort function.
Diagnostic Steps
A sort operation against customer data would cause LibreOffice to hang.
1. open document in Calc
2. highlight all columns
3. select data -> sort -> choose to sort by column B (product)
4. Calc hangs
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