evince crashed with SIGSEGV in ev_pixbuf_cache_set_selection_list()

[Don Cristóbal]

Binary package hint: evince

Might be a duplicate of Bug #697275, Bug #401034, Bug #319113 or Bug #321439.

Like in Bug #697275, I did nothing special except viewing pdf files downloaded from the Internet with Firefox or opened from Thunderbird.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-11.25-generic 2.6.37-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-11-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Jan 4 16:57:34 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101130.2)
ProcCmdline: evince file:///tmp/Verkehrsteiner_Aufwanduebersicht.pdf
ProcCmdline_: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-11-generic root=UUID=eefd9436-99a3-4e7b-89b0-3bd3fc07dac1 ro vt.handoff=7 quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=es_ES:en_US:en
 LANG=es_ES.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=es_ES.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.37-11.25-generic 2.6.37-rc7
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb489de <ev_pixbuf_cache_set_selection_list+446>: mov 0x58(%eax),%edx
 PC (0x00b489de) ok
 source "0x58(%eax)" (0x00000058) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%edx" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evince
StacktraceTop:
 ev_pixbuf_cache_set_selection_list () from /usr/lib/libevview.so.3
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libevview.so.3
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libevview.so.3
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libevview.so.3
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
Title: evince crashed with SIGSEGV in ev_pixbuf_cache_set_selection_list()
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (apport-gtk:1761): Gtk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+3.0-2.91.7/gtk/gtktreestore.c:836: Unable to convert from PyObject to gchararray
 (xfce4-session:1261): Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_NAME contained invalid UTF-8
 (xfce4-panel:1274): Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_NAME contained invalid UTF-8
 (xfce4-panel:1274): Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_ICON_NAME contained invalid UTF-8
 (xfce4-session:1261): Wnck-WARNING **: Property _NET_WM_ICON_NAME contained invalid UTF-8

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Stacktrace:
 #0 0x00b489de in ev_pixbuf_cache_set_selection_list (
     pixbuf_cache=0x227f42d8, selection_list=0x0)
     at /build/buildd/evince-2.32.0/./libview/ev-pixbuf-cache.c:586
  selection = Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0x9f
StacktraceTop: ev_pixbuf_cache_set_selection_list (

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for reporting this issue. Can you answer the following questions, please:

* How can I reproduce this, please give me the exact steps. Do I attempt opeing a pdf in firefox or thunderbird or evince?
* Is it possible to attach the pdf file which caused the error as an attachment below?

Thank you for helping improve Xubuntu.

[Chrescht (sekateur)]

Happened to me when I was compiling the pdf with pdflatex in Texmaker.
The pdf was already open in Evince..and usually the view refreshes automatically when the file has changed.
Only this time it crashed.
I have not been able to reproduce it yet..

cheers.

[Don Cristóbal (doncristobal)]

Charlie: No, I can't reliably reproduce this, and I can't give clear information on what I was doing to cause the crash. There were several opened pdf files (like the one here: http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/c142_20.html I don't know exactly which, directly opened from Firefox) and when I switched back to evince from another application, evince crashed. That might confirm what Chrescht guesses about the automatic refreshing of displayed pdf files.

I don't know if under these circumstances you'll want to keep the bug report open.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thanks for your response. This bug does appear to have a valid stacktrace, so let's see if there is enough information for the developers to work the issue. I am marking it confirmed, with the developers aware that it can not be reproduced reliably.

[Mauricio Pretto (pretto)]

This just happened to me.
I was opening two pdf's attached to an email (thunderbird) .
I've tried to reproduced again but it was not possible.

[Mauricio Pretto (pretto)]

This seems fixed for me on latest updates .......

[Jose Gómez (adler-dreamcoder)]

I have just had this error while opening some pdf files from Firefox. One of them (http://www.docv.gva.es/datos/2010/09/06/pdf/2010_9553.pdf) has crashed evince. Nonetheless, once I have tried again it has opened the file without problems. So, the error hasn't reproduced.

In kern.log I get:

evince[8157]: segfault at 58 ip 00128a7e sp bfb41110 error 4 in libevview.so.3.0.0110000+36000]

In apport.log:

ERROR: apport (pid 8164) Thu Mar 31 10:20:38 2011: called for pid 8157, signal 11
ERROR: apport (pid 8164) Thu Mar 31 10:20:38 2011: executable: /usr/bin/evince (command line "evince /tmp/2010_9553.pdf")
ERROR: apport (pid 8164) Thu Mar 31 10:20:51 2011: wrote report /var/crash/_usr_bin_evince.1000.crash

(attached _usr_bin_evince.1000.crash, in case it can be of any use)

[sp1d3r (miguelomonroyb)]

It happened me after I save a copy of a PDF using the option "Save a copy" from the menu of evince. Then I clic the close buttons and receive the notification error.

[Pavel Studeník (junior-pavelstudenik)]

I open pdf with some images by evince, then evince crashed and X-server freezed. I try sometime and always it's happened.

[Martin Schröder (martinschroeder)]

Same here: evince crashed while opening PDF files.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This is fixed on http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=a3b87cb28e46958b37e384a47604032ea0889807 ; which is on updates already.