Bug#782823: Evince always crashes when called without arguments, error "rangecheck -15 \n Segmentation fault"

[George Bateman]

I don't have this problem any more, and I haven't got a copy of the
recently-used.xbel that would have been causing it. Sorry! Thanks for
checking this out though.

On 15 May 2016 at 00:27, Jason Crain <jason at inspiresomeone.us> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible
>
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:23:39PM +0100, George Bateman wrote:
>> When I click on an Evince launcher from the Cinnamon menu, it causes
>> Evince to appear briefly, then close. When I type "evince" in a
>> terminal, the same thing happens, but I see the error text
>>
>> rangecheck -15
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>> If I call "evince /tmp/test.pdf", it opens successfully, although I do
>> see the error "(evince:1219): Gtk-WARNING **:
>> gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -76
>> and height 17". Similarly, opening downloaded PDFs from Firefox works
>> OK.
>>
>> This bug behaves similarly to
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762719, but doesn't
>> appear to be the same one; I can reproduce that bug, but it gives
>> different error messages etc. Also, this bug is not dependant on the
>> previous file opened.
>
> It's probably related to #762719, but I'd guess instead of a password
> protected PDF, it's due to some other recently used bad file.  If you
> still have this problem, can you try to clear the recently used list by:
>
>     mv ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel ~/
>
> And see if that fixes it?  And if it does fix it, go through
> recently-used.xbel to see if you can find which document crashes evince?