GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 344394
Selecting text in nested PDF causes crash
Last modified: 2006-09-09 09:58:56 UTC
Distribution: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Package: evince Severity: major Version: GNOME2.12.3 0.5.x Gnome-Distributor: Gentoo Synopsis: Selecting text in nested PDF causes crash Bugzilla-Product: evince Bugzilla-Component: general Bugzilla-Version: 0.5.x BugBuddy-GnomeVersion: 2.0 (2.12.0) Description: Description of the crash: Selecting text in a PDF that was created from including parts of another PDF causes a crash. Steps to reproduce the crash: 1. Make PDF including text from another PDF (\includegraphics{paragraph.pdf} in PDFLaTeX) 2. Select text from included PDF Expected Results: The text gets selected. (Selecting other text works fine.) How often does this happen? Always Additional Information: None Debugging Information: Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/evince' (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/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 16384 (LWP 7245)] [New Thread 32769 (LWP 7247)] [New Thread 16386 (LWP 7248)] 0x4105da7b in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
+ Trace 68752
Thread 3 (Thread 16386 (LWP 7248))
------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2006-06-09 13:02 -------
Thanks for the bug report. Unfortunately, that stack trace is not very useful in determining the cause of the crash. Can you provide us with a sample file where the crash occurs or provide us a stack trace with debugging symbols? Please see http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do the latter.
Created attachment 67067 [details] PDF and LaTeX source that cause bug Display outer.pdf and then select the text to cause evince to crash.
Yep, I can duplicate using CVS as of today:
+ Trace 68760
Thread 1 (Thread -1208535360 (LWP 26893))
That's poppler bug and it should be fixed already in recent poppler, in evince it's a dup of 316907. Elijah, do you have poppler head as well?
*** Bug 345948 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Nickolay: I don't remember whether I was using poppler HEAD at the time or not; I do know that I updated to cvs head of all modules built by jhbuild (including both poppler and evince) multiple times since 2006-06-10, but I don't know if I had built both recently before then or not. I can try again after GUADEC as my laptop is too unstable to get a development version of Gnome built.
That was (or should be fixed a long time before), so I suppose something became broken again. So don't worry, Elijah, thanks for testing. I'll try to look closer. Taking in account that selection is broken at all now, it's not so serious bug.
Is this bug should be opened in Freedesktop bugzilla ? I don't want to push the bug out of gnome bugzilla :)
*** Bug 348842 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Looks like problem still exists in recent poppler, that's sad. We have to resolve it before the release. The bug 349311 will be tracker bug for this problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 349311 ***
*** Bug 354653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***