Bug 737864 – GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

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Bug 737864 - GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed


Summary:	GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' fa...


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	evince
Classification:	Core
Component:	general
Version:	3.14.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Evince Maintainers
QA Contact:	Evince Maintainers

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Reported:	2014-10-03 21:54 UTC by Paul Menzel
Modified:	2014-10-19 14:06 UTC

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Description Paul Menzel 2014-10-03 21:54:40 UTC

Using Debian Sid/unstable with Evince 3.14.0, opening a PDF file the following is printed to the terminal.

    (evince:17251): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Using `G_DEBUG=fatal-warnings`, GDB stops at and the backtrace below is obtained.

    Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
    g_logv (log_domain=0xb711f956 "GLib-GObject", log_level=G_LOG_LEVEL_CRITICAL, format=0x0, args=0x0)
        at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmessages.c:1046
    1046	/build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmessages.c: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden.
    (gdb) set logging true /tmp/20141003--evince--t-a-a-bt-f.txt

+ Trace 234173

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb651d880 (LWP 18101))

#0 g_logv
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmessages.c line 1046
#1 g_log
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmessages.c line 1079
#2 g_return_if_fail_warning
#3 g_object_unref
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./gobject/gobject.c line 3068
#4 ev_window_update_links_model
at /build/evince-xXhHZk/evince-3.14.0/./shell/ev-window.c line 4031
#5 ev_window_run_fullscreen
at /build/evince-xXhHZk/evince-3.14.0/./shell/ev-window.c line 4153
#6 setup_model_from_metadata
at /build/evince-xXhHZk/evince-3.14.0/./shell/ev-window.c line 1227
#7 ev_window_open_uri
#8 ev_application_open_uri_in_window
at /build/evince-xXhHZk/evince-3.14.0/./shell/ev-application.c line 568
#9 _ev_application_open_uri_at_dest
at /build/evince-xXhHZk/evince-3.14.0/./shell/ev-application.c line 603
#10 on_register_uri_cb
at /build/evince-xXhHZk/evince-3.14.0/./shell/ev-application.c line 370
#11 g_simple_async_result_complete
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 763
#12 g_dbus_connection_call_done
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./gio/gdbusconnection.c line 5508
#13 g_simple_async_result_complete
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 763
#14 complete_in_idle_cb
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./gio/gsimpleasyncresult.c line 775
#15 g_idle_dispatch
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmain.c line 5367
#16 g_main_dispatch
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmain.c line 3111
#17 g_main_context_dispatch
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmain.c line 3710
#18 g_main_context_iterate
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmain.c line 3781
#19 g_main_context_iteration
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./glib/gmain.c line 3842
#20 g_application_run
at /build/glib2.0-BmD7JP/glib2.0-2.42.0/./gio/gapplication.c line 2282
#21 main
at /build/evince-xXhHZk/evince-3.14.0/./shell/main.c line 316

Comment 1 José Aliste 2014-10-04 12:30:53 UTC

This happens when we open the file directly to fullscreen, for instance, by running evince -f file.pdf

Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2014-10-19 14:06:08 UTC

Thanks for the bug report, I've just pushed a fix to git master.