[Pkg-gnome-extras-maintainers] Bug#1131557: evince: crashes with "X Window System error" on startup: BadDrawable

[Julian Gilbey]

Package: evince
Version: 49~alpha-2
Severity: grave

I have no idea if this is a local configuration issue (probably) or
something more widespread, but I have no idea how to track down the
source of the bug.  Running evince on any PDF file crashes
immediately.  This happened on my testing machine today after a
dist-upgrade, though evince was not upgraded, so I don't know which
package is causing the error.  Running evince on any file gives the
following error:

$ evince /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.pdf.gz 

(evince:158225): Gdk-WARNING **: 16:16:20.323: The program 'evince' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 1013 error_code 9 request_code 149 (unknown) minor_code 4)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


I have no idea how to proceed from here :(  Running evince under gdb
didn't help, as there are no debugging symbols.

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer!

   Julian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.19.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.49.0-4
ii  evince-common                                49~alpha-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    50~alpha-1
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.9~beta-2
ii  libc6                                        2.42-13
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.4-3
ii  libevdocument-4.0-6                          49~alpha-2
ii  libevview-4.0-5                              49~alpha-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.44.5+dfsg-4
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.88.0-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-4-2t64                      44.5-1
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.22.1+ds-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.57.0-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.21.7-2
ii  shared-mime-info                             2.4-5+b3

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.16.2-4
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.16.2-4

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  gvfs             1.60.0-1
pn  nautilus-sendto  <none>
ii  poppler-data     0.4.12-1
ii  unrar            1:7.2.4-1

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