Bug#935182: Concurrent file open on the same host results file deletion

Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jul 2026 21:08:24 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.openoffice
Message-ID <15c576aa-f8d5-48bd-af42-c2d793bc5158__19935.8389525273$1782933238$gmane$org@debian.org>
Control: severity -1 important

On 01/07/26 20:32, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Am 01.07.26 um 11:19 schrieb Gioele Barabucci:
>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:52:52 +0200 Gilles MOREL 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Package: libreoffice-core
>>> Version: 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u3
>>> Severity: grave
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> When two users on the same machine open the same file from a samba 
>>> share, the second gets a notice about the file to be openned in 
>>> read-only mode.
>>> If the first user saves modification while the second user have the 
>>> file openned, the first user gets an error saying the file does not 
>>> exists anymore.
>>> And then, the file is actually deleted once the second user closes 
>>> the file.
>>
>> Dear libreoffice maintainers,
>>
>> would it be possible to reduce the severity of this bug?
>>
> Thought about that too. Feel free to do that. Busy with RL stuff so I 
> didn't ping the submitter yet (which I would do together with 
> downgrading) whether it actually still applies....

Hi,

I'm reducing the severity of this bug to "important".

As a data-loss bug it is definitely something that must be fixed, but 
the release managers are already considering this bug not really release 
critical, so "important" seems the right level.

Regards,