evince crash on startup with segmentation fault

Bug #1850619 reported by Jean
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evince (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I'm unable since a few weeks to open evince, since it crashes with a segmentation fault at launch.

Ubuntu release: 18.04.3 LTS

$ apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installato: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2
  Candidato: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2
  Tabella versione:
 *** 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2 500
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.28.2-1 500
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

Repro:

$ evince
[1] 25999 segmentation fault (core dumped) evince

Attaching crash report.

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Jean (alessandro-lai85) wrote :
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Jean (alessandro-lai85) wrote :

I've found the issue. I had evince installed by both apt and snap. I've purged the apt package and reinstalled the snap, and now it seems to be working fine.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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