Bug#977754: evince does not display EPS or PS files anymore and shows "Loading..." forever

[mbrennwa]

Package: evince
Version: 3.38.0-3
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: mbrennwa at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

Opening any EPS or PS file leads to an empty display showing "Loading..."
forever. I tested different EPS and PS files, and the result is always the
same. The files open properly with ghostview, inkscape, gimp, etc.

Running evince from a terminal shows the following:

$ evince test.eps
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
(libspectre) ghostscript reports: fatal internal error -100**** Unable to open
the initial device, quitting.
(libspectre) ghostscript reports: fatal internal error -100**** Unable to open
the initial device, quitting.
(libspectre) ghostscript reports: fatal internal error -100

I am aware that this problem is probably related to libspectre somehow, but I
do not know how to test this. Also I suspect the problem may be related to how
evince and libspectre interact with each other.

The expected behaviour would be to open and display EPS and PS files normally,
or at least to show a message informing the user what went wrong.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.38.0-1
ii  evince-common                                3.38.0-3
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.38.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.36.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.31-6
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.16.0-4
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-4
ii  libevdocument3-4                             3.38.0-3
ii  libevview3-3                                 3.38.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.2+dfsg-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.40.2-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.66.3-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-19                        3.38.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.24-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.38.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.46.2-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.46.2-3
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.20.4-1
ii  shared-mime-info                             2.0-1

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.20-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.20-1

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  gvfs             1.46.1-1
ii  nautilus-sendto  3.8.6-3.1
ii  poppler-data     0.4.10-1
pn  unrar            <none>

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