GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 630999
evince crashed with SIGSEGV in clear_job_selection()
Last modified: 2011-03-03 18:50:01 UTC
this report has been filed here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/651931 Opened a pdf file and got the crash, worked fine the second time though. ".
+ Trace 223953
Thread 1 (process 19543)
Pedro: Can you ask for attach the pdf?
doing that already, thanks Fabio.
Informations from the downstream report: It's any given PDF, I was able to reproduce it with several; you just need to click before the document area is redrawn/resized. Heres a handful: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1070000/1066954/p1231-mcpherson.pdf?key1=1066954&key2=7358983711&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618 http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/apvis07ogawa.pdf http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~shearer/papers/pixelplexing.pdf http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/pdf/SOFA.Sept.2010data.pdf
I can't reproduce it.
I don't we can do it on request either... :-( A reporter downstream said "clicking on the client area" was enough for him to trigger the crash. Does the trace contain anything that could be useful, or that could give a hint about how to reproduce it?
I can't reproduce it too.
Carlos: a reporter in Launchpad just replied and confirms he's able to reproduce the bug at will, and I've been able too by following these instructions: > Evince will crash if you click on the window just after its started up > and mapped, but just before it resizes and displays the file it opened. > It can be tricky to reproduce and click at the right time if your WM > has weird rules for window placement, but it happens every time > without fail. It's likely to depend on your computer's performances. I needed to put mine under pressure (I opened the PDF while launching OpenOffice) to manage clicking in the window before it resizes itself. Maybe also with something like starting Rhythmbox, running updatedb or a heavy task like that... ;-)
Created attachment 174754 [details] Backtrace of segmentation fault
I can reproduce it on Ubuntu 10.10 with evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 ( https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/2.32.0-0ubuntu1 ). I don't think the files matter much, although some are more prone than others. The method of getting the segmentation fault is quickly left-clicking in the main window before the PDF comes up. It also happens in the latest evince trunk commit (Tue Nov 16 19:21:22 2010 +0100 08a644b265e9aac065c6df01a444161c6906de67), against the latest poppler commit, against relatively recent gtk+/glib etc. The backtrace of that I just attached to the bug report. With the vanilla Ubuntu 10.10 evince I can reproduce it pretty easily. With my latest evince from jhbuild, it took me a few tries to reproduce the problem. I would suggest trying different pdf's under different loads. The key is to left click immediately after the main window opens. A split-second later there will be no problem. My desktop is fast though, on a netbook it may be more of a problem.
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Fixed in git master. Thank you all for your help.
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