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

[Patrice Duroux]

Hi,
I suggest you to look at #975387 as I think it is related to this issue.
On my side, rebuilding libspectre1 solved this on my system.


On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:57:13 +0100 mbrennwa <mbrennwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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