Bug#827335: evince: assertion failed: (wayland_display->cursor_theme_name)

[Jason Crain]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:04:49AM -0700, Diane Trout wrote:
> Interestingly if I rebuild the debian package and run it from the build
> directory it works.
> 
> ie in the result of running apt-get source evince
> 
> this command works
> 
> ./debian/tmp/usr/bin/evince ~/dl/ENCODE\ Consortium\ Meeting_\
> Encyclopedia\ 2016.pdf 
> 
> and this one doesn't
> 
> evince ~/dl/ENCODE\ Consortium\ Meeting_\ Encyclopedia\ 2016.pdf 
> 
> (evince:6887): Gdk-WARNING **: Failed to load cursor theme DMZ-White
> 
> (evince:6887): Gdk-WARNING **: Failed to load cursor theme DMZ-White
> **
> Gdk:ERROR:/build/gtk+3.0-dN7rjx/gtk+3.0-
> 3.22.1/./gdk/wayland/gdkdisplay-
> wayland.c:1012:_gdk_wayland_display_get_scaled_cursor_theme: assertion
> failed: (display_wayland->cursor_theme_name)

It's aborting because loading the cursor theme is failing for some
reason.  And this may be a wild guess, but can you check permissions on
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR ?  You'll need write access to that directory.