Bug#443402: evince: Can effectively freeze X by grabbing keyboard and mouse

[Dylan Thurston]

Package: evince
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

If you start evince with the attached file placed in
~/.gnome2/evince/ev-metadata.xml by calling "evince file.pdf" for any
PDF file[1], X will effectively freeze: the keyboard and mouse clicks no
longer have any effect, although the mouse cursor continues to move
and the display continues to update.  Killing evince does not fix the
situation.  This can cause data loss if any other applications are
open.

[1] I'm not sure exactly what is required to trigger the bug, since I
have to restart X each time, which is rather annoying.  Possibly the
file doesn't have to exist or may be a directory; however, calling
evince with no file argument at all seems to fix the problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  gconf2                  2.18.0.1-3       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme        2.18.0-3         GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gs-esp [gs]             8.15.3.dfsg.1-1  The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  gs-gpl [gs]             8.56.dfsg.1-1.1  The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.20.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.20.0-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.20.0-1         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.1-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdjvulibre15          3.5.19-3         Runtime support for the DjVu image
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.18.0.1-3       GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.1-3         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       0.8.1-2          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.0-1         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.18.1-2         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.20.0-1       GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.0-2         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62               6b-14            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkpathsea4            2007-14          TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.18.3-3         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.7-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpoppler-glib1        0.5.4-6.1        PDF rendering library (GLib-based 
ii  libpopt0                1.10-3           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6              4.2.1-5          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4                3.8.2-7          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.3-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-2    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.2-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.4-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

evince recommends no packages.

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