GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 735496
High (100%) CPU usage / freeze when viewing malformed PDF
Last modified: 2018-02-23 07:21:36 UTC
Created attachment 284579 [details] The culprit file When I open the attached PDF[1], top shows evince consuming 100% of 2-3 CPU cores. I believe the PDF is malformed somehow and therefore triggers this behaviour. Some meta information about the pdf: ---- [~/Downloads]λ pdfinfo daniele-gorla.pdf Keywords: Creator: PowerPoint Producer: Mac OS X 10.9.3 Quartz PDFContext CreationDate: Wed Jun 18 16:44:10 2014 ModDate: Wed Jun 18 16:44:10 2014 Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 21 Encrypted: no Page size: 720 x 540 pts Page rot: 0 File size: 1606565 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.3 [~/Downloads]λ gs -o /dev/null -sDEVICE=nullpage daniele-gorla.pdf GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. **** Warning: considering '0000000000 XXXXX n' as a free entry. **** Warning: considering '0000000000 XXXXX n' as a free entry. **** Warning: considering '0000000000 XXXXX n' as a free entry. <snip, nothing useful afterwards> ---- [1]: Can also be found at http://opct2014.cs.vu.nl/?post_type=document&p=279
Sorry, forgot to include my system info: ---- [~/Downloads]λ evince --version GNOME Document Viewer 3.12.1 [~/Downloads]λ dpkg --status evince Package: evince Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: gnome Installed-Size: 1145 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.12.1-1 Provides: djvu-viewer, pdf-viewer, postscript-viewer Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libevdocument3-4 (= 3.12.1-1), libevview3-3 (= 3.12.1-1), libgail-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.8.0), libnautilus-extension1a (>= 2.91), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), evince-common (>= 3.12), evince-common (<< 3.13), gnome-icon-theme-symbolic (>= 2.17.1), shared-mime-info [~/Downloads]λ uname -a Linux zebra 3.14-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.4-1 (2014-05-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux ----
This issue might be related to what happens in both okular and evince with https://launchpadlibrarian.net/193465596/HotMobile12-final72.pdf (as discussed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1404393). Bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645796 could also be related.
Hm. I could view the file without any problems. Do I have to do anything in particular to trigger the bug?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment. Thanks!