Bug 740331 – blank thumbnails for some pages in PS file

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Bug 740331 - blank thumbnails for some pages in PS file


Summary:	blank thumbnails for some pages in PS file


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	evince
Classification:	Core
Component:	PS
Version:	3.20.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

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

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2014-11-18 16:54 UTC by Laurent Bonnaud
Modified:	2018-05-22 15:57 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
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Attachments
File to reproduce the crash (278.95 KB, application/postscript) 2014-11-18 16:55 UTC, Laurent Bonnaud	Details

Description Laurent Bonnaud 2014-11-18 16:54:47 UTC

Hi,

to reproduce this bug:

 - load the attached PS file into evince
 - if thumbnails are not displayed press F9 and choose to display thumbnails
 - wait for the crash

This bug exists in several distributions:
 - Ubuntu + GNOME PPA
 - Debian sid+experimental

in evince 3.14.1.

Here is a backtrace:

+ Trace 234342

#0 cairo_surface_set_device_scale
from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo.so.2
#1 thumbnail_job_completed_callback
at /build/buildd/evince-3.14.1/./shell/ev-sidebar-thumbnails.c line 941
#2 _g_closure_invoke_va
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gobject/gclosure.c line 831
#3 g_signal_emit_valist
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3218
#4 g_signal_emit
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gobject/gsignal.c line 3365
#5 emit_finished
at /build/buildd/evince-3.14.1/./libview/ev-jobs.c line 180
#6 g_main_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./glib/gmain.c line 3111
#7 g_main_context_dispatch
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./glib/gmain.c line 3710
#8 g_main_context_iterate
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./glib/gmain.c line 3781
#9 g_main_context_iteration
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./glib/gmain.c line 3842
#10 g_application_run
at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.42.1/./gio/gapplication.c line 2282
#11 main
at /build/buildd/evince-3.14.1/./shell/main.c line 325

Comment 1 Laurent Bonnaud 2014-11-18 16:55:40 UTC

Created attachment 290931 [details]
File to reproduce the crash

Comment 2 José Aliste 2014-11-18 16:57:08 UTC

Indeed, thinks it happens when rendering page 6

Comment 3 José Aliste 2014-11-18 17:04:34 UTC

for some reason the thumbnail_surface is a NULL pointer, thus the crash

Comment 4 Laurent Bonnaud 2015-04-28 18:06:38 UTC

This bug still exists in evince 3.16.0 in this Ubuntu (PPA) package:

Package: evince
Version: 3.16.0-0ubuntu1~vivid1

Comment 5 Laurent Bonnaud 2015-10-02 13:49:53 UTC

This bug still exists in Ubuntu 15.10 in this package version:

Package: evince
Version: 3.16.1-0ubuntu1

Comment 6 Laurent Bonnaud 2015-10-02 13:52:28 UTC

It also still exists in Debian sid in this package version:

Package: evince
Version: 3.18.0-1

Comment 7 José Aliste 2015-10-02 18:35:05 UTC

Normally the patches from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744586

should fix this bug.

Comment 8 Laurent Bonnaud 2015-10-02 18:39:46 UTC

Great!  I am looking forward to an evince version with this patch included...

Comment 9 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2015-10-16 17:32:11 UTC

May you check if you still can reproduce the issue?

Comment 10 Laurent Bonnaud 2015-11-24 09:01:54 UTC

I tested with this package version:

Package: evince
Version: 3.18.2-1ubuntu1~wily1

and it no longer crashes.  However, the thumbnails for pages 6 and 7 remain blank.  With the same file okular is able to display correct thumbnails.

Comment 11 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2015-11-24 09:22:00 UTC

In console I get:

undefinedresult -23

That is not from Evince, it should come from libspectre.

Comment 12 Laurent Bonnaud 2016-06-29 17:25:54 UTC

Still no thumbnails for pages 5 and 6 in this evince version:

Package: evince
Version: 3.20.0-3ubuntu1~xenial1

Comment 13 Laurent Bonnaud 2017-03-01 15:50:07 UTC

Still no thumbnails for pages 5 and 6 in this evince version:

Package: evince
Version: 3.22.0-0ubuntu1

Comment 14 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 15:57:52 UTC

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