evince hangs if a ceritain pdf is loaded

Bug #22362 reported by Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
poppler (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

typing evince nasty.pdf in a terminal, and then instructiong evince to go to
page 21 (by typing 21 in the box and hitting enter) hangs evince (it stops
responding to any input). In the terminal the following nasty messages are shown:

jorge@jorge06:~/samba_publico/gaga/ele-39$ evince nastybug.pdf
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08306890 ***
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xca2)!
Killed

Of course the "Killed" message is shown after I "force quit" evince.
the same pdf can be read flawlessly (well, except for some error messages in the
terminal, see log file attached) in xpdf.

This happened in Breezy (which I update daily) , in a Athlon XP 2600+, MSI KT4
Ultra motherboard. The computer's FSB has been underclocked from 133 MHz to 128
MHz to become stable, but, anyway, I don't think this evince problem is a
hardware one.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4579: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4579

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Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto (jorgepeixoto) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=4022)
The pdf that hands evince

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Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto (jorgepeixoto) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=4023)
the output of xpdf nastybug.pdf 2> xpdflog.txt

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug, I've forwarded the issue upstream:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4579

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

I cannot reproduce this with dapper's evince 0.5.1-0ubuntu1 and libpoppler0c2 0.5.0-0ubuntu5 ...

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Works fine for me too on dapper, closing as fixed. Feel free to reopen if you still have the issue after updating

Changed in poppler:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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