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

[Janusz S. Bien]

Quote/Cytat - Jason Crain <jason at inspiresomeone.us> (Sat 14 May 2016  
11:45:57 PM CEST):

> 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?

It happens only on specific PDFs like the one mentioned above. I  
stopped working on them for the time being and I have no problems with  
evince in my everyday use.

  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.

Thanks for the detailed debugging instructions.

I will try to reproduce my problems, but not immediately, as I have a  
rather hectic time till the mid of June.

Best regards

Janusz


-- 
Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bień -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra  
Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
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