evince crashed with SIGSEGV in FcConfigSubstituteWithPat()

[Tim Farnum]

Binary package hint: evince

Was reading a large document (book with > 500 pp. _Programming Erlang_) and using the scroll function of the trackpad on my laptop when the program froze.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
Package: evince 2.23.6-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: evince file:///home/username/learnerlang/ProgrammingErlang.pdf
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evince
StacktraceTop:
 FcConfigSubstituteWithPat ()
 FcConfigSubstitute () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
 GlobalParams::getDisplayFont ()
 CairoFont::create () from /usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so.3
 CairoFontEngine::getFont ()
Title: evince crashed with SIGSEGV in FcConfigSubstituteWithPat()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-1-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video yaws

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:IA__FcConfigSubstituteWithPat (config=0x9a10780, p=0xb4b2d6a0, p_pat=0x0, kind=FcMatchPattern)
IA__FcConfigSubstitute (config=0x9a10780, p=0xb4b2d6a0, kind=FcMatchPattern) at fccfg.c:1531
GlobalParams::getDisplayFont (this=0x9a83a48, font=0xb4b28238) at GlobalParams.cc:1097
CairoFont::create (gfxFont=0xb4b28238, xref=0x9a7ee08, lib=0x9bbbaa8, useCIDs=1) at CairoFontEngine.cc:100
CairoFontEngine::getFont (this=0x9bc0870, gfxFont=0xb4b28238, xref=0x9a7ee08) at CairoFontEngine.cc:379

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a valgrind log following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valgrind and attach the file to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[Scott Wegner (swegner)]

I just received this crash in Intrepid beta. I left a large ebook open over night. When I opened a new document and scrolled in the previous ebook, they both crashed with an apport notification.

If I can reproduce it, I'll try get a valgrind report.

[Alexander Rødseth (alexanro)]

I experienced this one too. I opened Evince from the commandline, this way:
evince "http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf"

After reading the six or so first pages, I used other applications for an hour or two (mostly Firefox).
When I returned to Evince and scrolled a bit up and down, I experienced this crash too.