diff --git a/0001-abort-doesn-t-gain-us-anything-here.patch b/0001-abort-doesn-t-gain-us-anything-here.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f8219c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-abort-doesn-t-gain-us-anything-here.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From 72244e6e6035ffc211ea7a4fce9aa96de8bc1f76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Caol=C3=A1n=20McNamara?= <caolanm@redhat.com>
+Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:16:06 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] abort doesn't gain us anything here.
+
+abort doesn't gain us anything here except to force abrt automatic bugreports kick
+in, and XIOErrors can't be worked around
+---
+ vcl/unx/source/plugadapt/salplug.cxx |    2 +-
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/vcl/unx/source/plugadapt/salplug.cxx b/vcl/unx/source/plugadapt/salplug.cxx
+index 54f9752..ba6bf4a 100644
+--- a/vcl/unx/source/plugadapt/salplug.cxx
++++ b/vcl/unx/source/plugadapt/salplug.cxx
+@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ void SalAbort( const XubString& rErrorText )
+         std::fprintf( stderr, "Application Error" );
+     else
+         std::fprintf( stderr, "%s", ByteString( rErrorText, gsl_getSystemTextEncoding() ).GetBuffer() );
+-    abort();
++    exit(-1);
+ }
+ 
+ const OUString& SalGetDesktopEnvironment()
+-- 
+1.7.3.1
+
diff --git a/libreoffice.spec b/libreoffice.spec
index 101d6fb..b731b5b 100644
--- a/libreoffice.spec
+++ b/libreoffice.spec
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ Patch15: openoffice.org-3.3.0.ooo113273.desktop.resolvelinks.patch
 Patch16: libreoffice-buildfix.patch
 Patch17: libreoffice-xdg632229.gnomeshell.patch
 Patch18: 0001-strcpy-cannot-be-used-with-overlapping-src-and-dest.patch
+Patch19: 0001-abort-doesn-t-gain-us-anything-here.patch
 
 %{!?python_sitearch: %global python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(1))")}
 %define instdir %{_libdir}
@@ -717,6 +718,7 @@ cp -p %{SOURCE20} external/unowinreg/unowinreg.dll
 %patch16 -p1 -b .libreoffice-buildfix.patch
 %patch17 -p0 -b .xdg632229.gnomeshell.patch
 %patch18 -p1 -b .strcpy-cannot-be-used-with-overlapping-src-and-dest
+%patch19 -p1 -b .abort-doesn-t-gain-us-anything-here.patch
 
 %build
 echo build start time is `date`, diskspace: `df -h . | tail -n 1`