Bug#484160: evince: crashes after reloading a pdf a few times

[Samuel Mimram]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:12:41PM +0200, Christian Pulvermacher wrote:
> evince crashes consistently when I reload any pdf document roughly 12
> times (this seems to vary between files).
> Since I'm using evince to preview documents I'm working on this happens
> quite often.

I also regularly get crashes on pdf files when I reload or scroll after
some time. This behaviour was not present in the 2.20 series. Here is
the debugging information generated by bug-buddy (with evince-dbg
installed):

Distribution: Debian lenny/sid
Gnome Release: 2.22.2 2008-05-29 (Debian)
BugBuddy Version: 2.22.0

System: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Tue May 27 15:38:35 UTC 2008 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10400090
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 73056256 vsize: 73056256 resident: 51691520 share: 13312000 rss: 51691520 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1212998105 rtime: 659 utime: 505 stime: 154 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/evince'

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb6bf3940 (LWP 23113)]
[New Thread 0xb6a2fb90 (LWP 23114)]
0xb7f87424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#0  0xb7f87424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb71d6b27 in poll () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#2  0xb73f8f53 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#3  0x09917600 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000001 in ?? ()
#5  0xffffffff in ?? ()
#6  0xb74a2b24 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#7  0x099178c0 in ?? ()
#8  0xb74a2b24 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#9  0x099178c0 in ?? ()
#10 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Thread 2 (Thread 0xb6a2fb90 (LWP 23114)):
#0  0xb7f87424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
#1  0xb7269fdb in waitpid () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#2  0xb72e38a4 in g_spawn_sync () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3  0xb72e3bbc in g_spawn_command_line_sync () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#4  0xb7f83198 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
No symbol table info available.
#5  <signal handler called>
No symbol table info available.
#6  0xb751c30b in FT_Done_Face () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#7  0xb76e14bd in ?? () from /usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.3
No symbol table info available.
#8  0xb758aeb0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
No symbol table info available.
#9  0xb5a544e8 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#10 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb6bf3940 (LWP 23113)):
#0  0xb7f87424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
#1  0xb71d6b27 in poll () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2  0xb73f8f53 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#3  0x09917600 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#4  0x00000001 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#5  0xffffffff in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#6  0xb74a2b24 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#7  0x099178c0 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#8  0xb74a2b24 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#9  0x099178c0 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#10 0x00000000 in ?? ()
No symbol table info available.
#0  0xb7f87424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
The program is running.  Quit anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]


----------- .xsession-errors (489 sec old) ---------------------
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
(firefox-bin:5571): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 5503
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
 *** Gnome Registry Session: yes.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3c00003 (Evince Doc)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x3600003 (Evince Doc)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0 timestamp; the pager needs to be fixed.
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The console where I launched evince also sometimes indicate
errors like:

Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xef49)!
Xlib: sequence lost (0x10000 > 0xf4c2) in reply type 0x4!