Bug#809388: evince: evince aborts after a few seconds without an error message

[Jason Crain]

Control: tags -1 + unreproducible moreinfo

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 07:43:26AM +0100, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
> I'm working on a rather sophisticated document with LuaLateX using PDF
> Optional Content Groups (OCG), cf.
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/jsbien/parkosz-traktat/downloads/ParkoszLatinPolish1.pdf
> 
> (the source is available in the repository).
> 
> Evince often aborts without an error message. Looks like switching the
> windows is one of the factors which trigger this, but in general I can't
> see any regularities.
> 
> Tt is especially annoying when using AUC-TeX, so I mentioned the problem
> first on the AUC-TeX list
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.general/5810/focus=5812
> 
> but then nobody was able to reproduce my problem.

I'm having trouble reproducing this too.  From your description, it
sounds like this happens when viewing the PDF or switching between
windows?  If this happens regularly to you, can you run evince in a
debugger and provide a stack trace?  Please see
http://live.gnome.org/GettingTraces for more information on how to do
so.

Additionally, to get a good stack trace with debugging symbols, you'll
need to install some debug packages.  Debugging symbols for Evince's
dependencies can be installed with:

    apt-get install gnome-dbg poppler-dbg libcairo2-dbg

Debug symbols for Evince itself have recently moved to the automatic
debugging symbols system which is still a little awkward to use.  For an
up to date stretch/testing system, you can install these by adding this
line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

   deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ unstable-debug main

And running the command: 

    apt-get update && apt-get install -t unstable-debug evince-dbgsym \
        libevdocument3-4-dbgsym libevview3-3-dbgsym

Yes, it's unstable-debug, but testing-debug doesn't work yet and Evince
in unstable and testing currently match so it should be OK.