Libreoffice calc click or copy and cell empties

[KennethIngham]

OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, x86_64, current as of an hour ago

In calc, when I click in a cell with data, sometimes it will empty the cell. Sometimes, I can click, but when I go to copy, this happens. I cannot do it at will, but it seems to be occurring around 50% of the time.

An undo (ctrl-Z) does not bring the data back. The data is really gone, not just disappeared.

Right now, I save after every thing I do with success so that I can handle data disappearing.

This just started happening about a week ago.

Bug? Configuration issue? Other?

libreoffice-mailmerge-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-filters-optional-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-calc-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-writer-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-base-drivers-firebird-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-branding-upstream-6.2.3.2-3.1.noarch
libreoffice-qt5-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-pyuno-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-share-linker-1-4.5.noarch
libreoffice-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-math-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-impress-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-icon-themes-6.2.3.2-3.1.noarch
libreoffice-draw-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64
libreoffice-l10n-en-6.2.3.2-3.1.noarch
libreoffice-base-6.2.3.2-3.1.x86_64

[KennethIngham]

This also is occurring in writer. Table cells are losing data.

Here is a specific sequence for the problem.

1. Fresh start of LO Writer.
2. I highlighted a word to copy text.
3. Clicked out of the window and into
   this window to type.
4. Clicked back, on title bar (NOT in the window
   itself anywhere).
5. Highlighted word
   disappeared.
   This time, under Edit, there was an undo operation that brought the word back.

[Cookievore]

Just to have asked: how do you “copy” it? Menu, Mouse, Keyboard? And are you sure, you copied it and did not cut it out?

[KennethIngham]

Copy with control-c.
Sometimes, just clicking in the cell clears it. I have learned to click in an empty cell first.
Once or twice can be a typo. Not as often as it is occurring. And, it is not a cut, because it is not in the buffer for pasting back.

[Cookievore]

I asked because the described behavior is what CTRL-X does (just in case of having confused this - obviously you did not). I’ve no clue what there is going on with your OpenSuse & LO. It’s only with LO and not happening with other applications?

[KennethIngham]

To answer the question above, only LO and no other applications.

Not really an answer, but the problem mostly went away with the latest OpenSUSE Tumbleweed update. My best guess is something odd in a library or a slightly incompatible shared library or… Now fighting Java errors, but that is for a different thread.