Selected text (and other elements) disappear sometimes

Bug #687502 reported by tsg1zzn
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #88893: Text selected in Evince disappears. Edit Remove
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evince (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

When selecting text it sometimes disappears. Either the selected area turn black, or it turns blue (selection color). Sometimes it is the entire selection, sometimes only part of it.
This happens in any document.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/proc/version_signature'
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-020637rc2-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 8 20:49:17 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince

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tsg1zzn (tsg1zzn) wrote :
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tsg1zzn (tsg1zzn) wrote :
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Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 88893, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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