evince crashed with signal 5 in g_malloc()

[Joshua Moravec]

Binary package hint: evince

When trying to use evince, it simply crashed. Happens maybe about 1/3 to 1/2 of pdf's. I've been using latex and this hasn't happened while looking at .dvi's.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evince 2.31.6.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-16.22-generic 2.6.35.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Aug 19 18:46:38 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-16-generic root=UUID=9b2656cf-c923-4d80-b1bb-ebaa541bc832 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: evince
StacktraceTop:
 g_malloc () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 gdk_region_intersect ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/libevview.so.2
Title: evince crashed with signal 5 in g_malloc()
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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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.

[Joshua Moravec (joshua-nofacade-moravec)]

I could not recreate the error under valgrind, but I have attached the log just as well.

[Ofer Cohen (oc666)]

It just happened to me when I try drag & drop something from pdf document.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

I'm seeing the same, uniquely with Maverick. Selecting, and dragging & dropping are really poor in this version of evince. There are quite a few of these bug reports; most marked incomplete.