Evince crashes while trying to open a specific PDF file

[Mathieu Marquer]

Binary package hint: evince

Trying to open the attached PDF file, evince immediately crashes with a segfault. Tested on two computers with Ubuntu 9.10, one with 32 bits version, the other with 64 bits version. Acroread opens the file normally.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 5 14:12:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 [modified: usr/bin/evince usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer usr/bin/evince-previewer]
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: '/proc/version_signature'
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-020632-generic i686

[madbiologist (me-again)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit.

Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

Interestingly, Nautilus will render the thumbnail of the first page without a problem.

Opening the file by running Evince from the terminal does indeed give:

:~/Downloads$ evince Amtrak_W02.pdf
Segmentation fault

I was able to open the file successfully in OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 using it's PDF Import Extension (version 1.0, available at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport )

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The crash seems rather a poppler one though

[madbiologist (me-again)]

I've just updated Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" alpha 2 to poppler - 0.12.3-0ubuntu1

I can confirm that the PDF file attached to this bug report now opens correctly.