"text forwarder is invalid, model might be dead"

I intermittently get a pop up error dialog that says “text forwarder is invalid, model might be dead” after typing into a cell in Calc. When I dismiss the dialog LibreOffice closes. When I start it back up, it offers to recover the document I was working in, but if I recover it, then I get this message every time I make a change. This means I have to discard the recovery and start over. Anyone know what’s going on?

I tried upgrading to 5.3, but that hasn’t stopped the error.

PS - I’m on Mac OSX

I see that this is two years old but I just got the same error.

Libreoffice Version: 6.2.3.2
MacOS: 10.14.5

Its 2020, I use MacOS 10.15, LibreOffice 6.4 …

I noticed the same behaviour. Is there any development on this issue?

I still get this error as well, also on Mac.

It doesn’t always happen, but when it does it is usually when I edit a formula which is adding multiple numbers, specifically when I modify or insert a number which is not the last one.

I have conditioned myself to avoid pressing Enter and do this instead:

  1. edit the formula (without pressing Enter)
  2. copy the formula
  3. press Esc
  4. paste the formula.

When I follow this workflow, it doesn’t crash.

This seems to be related: When I type = then a number + another number, I get a fatal error

If this issue is still relevant (at least 2 people from 2020 commented) it can be report here:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org

Make sure to first check if such a bug doen’t already exist.
And if it does, just add your input and interest.

Hope that helps.