GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 326233
evince crash on text select in .pdf doc
Last modified: 2006-01-08 22:41:04 UTC
From: chris <cgodbert2000@yahoo.co.uk> To: submit@bugs.gnome.org X-Mailer: bug-buddy 2.12.1 Subject: evince crashed and had to be restarted Distribution: Ubuntu 5.10 (breezy) Package: evince Severity: major Version: GNOME2.12.1 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Ubuntu Synopsis: evince crashed and had to be restarted Bugzilla-Product: evince Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: unspecified BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.12.0) Description: Description of the crash: evince crashed after opening a .pdf document from a web site link (http://www.channel4.com/media/pdfs/annual_report_2004/Channel4_AR_FINANCE.pdf). after navigating up/down between pages i attempted to select some text using the cursor (to copy to a text doc) and the application crashed. Steps to reproduce the crash: 1. open .pdf doc as referenced above 2. attempt to select text by highlighting it with the mouse 3. Expected Results: applicatio crashes and brings up the error pop-up The Application "evince" has quit unexpectedly. How often does this happen? 100% Additional Information: Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/evince' (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found) `system-supplied DSO at 0xffffe000' has disappeared; keeping its symbols. (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1228617504 (LWP 12902)] [New Thread -1230300240 (LWP 12903)] (no debugging symbols found) 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
+ Trace 65051
Thread 1 (Thread -1228617504 (LWP 12902))
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Thanks for reporting, unfortunately it's a poppler bug and it's quite hard to fix it. Hope, it will be fixed in the next release. Original bug has reference to poppler bugzilla entry. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 317294 ***