GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 640964
PDF causes evince to crash
Last modified: 2011-02-06 12:57:48 UTC
I forwarding this downstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/710072 Using fotex.PDF that is attached to the downstream bug navigate to page 93-96 and it should crash evince. I created a backtrace of the crash, this happens immediately when i open the document in evince as it tries to open straight to page 96 since that is where i was last time it crashed. Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
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Thread 140029602461440 (LWP 15592)
yes I can confirm this bug [New Thread 3031] [New Thread 3025] [New Thread 3024] [New Thread 3032] Core was generated by `evince /home/fabio/Downloads/Ftex.pdf'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
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It doesn't crash for me with cairo and pixman from git
ePDFviewer also crashes with this PDF so the problem is with poppler I believe. Also here is a smaller PDF that causes the same crash, but immediately upon being opened: http://www.poepping.de/fotoversicherung/Aenderungsantrag-FORMULAR-Fotoversicherung-2010-GE.pdf
The bug is in cairo. Carlos is right, the crash does not occur with the current cairo master git head. The bug was patched on October 29th, 2010 ( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=e9c1fc31887c5bfbb7d086f923a7628b7cfa739c ) in cairo git master. The fix has not been part of any cairo releases as of yet. So this is a cairo-related bug, not a bug in evince itself.