Re: "Sorry, the management."

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:46:11PM +0100, Lenart Janos wrote:
> Dear developers!
>
> A good friend of me does his everyday job in gnumeric, and she is happy
> to use it. However, now, she has the following problem, while trying to
> load a specific file[1]. I include some transcript here, please, try to
> discover this problem, it was not easy to convience her to use gnumeric
> instead of excel. (The file itself is in .xls format, but was saved by
> gnumeric a few hours before.)
>
> -----< on her box: gnumeric version 1.0.8 >-----
> Bonobo-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL for app gnumeric
ignorable.
 
> ** WARNING **: Tried to mark as unused the block 58 which has 1802706996
> how odd: blank named file in directory
> ** WARNING **: Invalid root chain
libole2 complaining that the file is corrupt.

> -----< on my box: gnumeric version 1.2.1-bonobo >-----
> Saski04.xls
>
> (gnumeric:743): libgsf:msole-CRITICAL **: file
> ../../gsf/gsf-infile-msole.c: line 204 (ole_info_read_metabat):
> assertion `*bats < max || *bats >= BAT_MAGIC_METABAT' failed
>
> (gnumeric:743): libgsf:msole-CRITICAL **: file
> ../../gsf/gsf-infile-msole.c: line 204 (ole_info_read_metabat):
> assertion `*bats < max || *bats >= BAT_MAGIC_METABAT' failed
>
> (gnumeric:743): libgsf:msole-CRITICAL **: file
> ../../gsf/gsf-infile-msole.c: line 204 (ole_info_read_metabat):
> assertion `*bats < max || *bats >= BAT_MAGIC_METABAT' failed
> -----< here it emits the "Unsupported file format" message >-----

Yup and that is libgsf complaining that it is corrupt.

> [1]: http://lenart.web.elte.hu/gnumeric/Saski04.xls

Excel XP can not open it either complaining that it is corrupt.  It
offered to attempt to extract things (a nice idea) then tells me
that damage was so extensive that repair wasn't possible.

In summary that file is toast.  Sorry.