Evince crashes due to unable to allocate memory for image

[gwern]

Binary package hint: evince

gwern@craft:10580~>uname -a [ 2:49PM]
Linux craft 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 15:10:52 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
gwern@craft:10581~>evince --version [ 2:49PM]
GNOME evince 2.22.2
gwern@craft:10582~>lsb_release -rd [ 2:49PM]
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
gwern@craft:10583~>apt-cache policy evince [ 2:49PM]
evince:
  Installed: 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.22.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

gwern@craft:10569~>strace -o evince-trace.txt evince causality.pdf [ 2:27PM]
/usr/share/themes/Glider/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:29: Invalid symbolic color 'fg_color'
/usr/share/themes/Glider/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:29: error: invalid identifier `fg_color', expected valid identifier
Error: Unable to allocate memory for image.
Error: Unable to allocate memory for image.

Evince crashes quickly with that error. causality.pdf is 328K and my machine has 4 gigs of RAM. I don't *think* this is a duplicate with any other bug reports, but I could be wrong as many deal with evince crashes. The specific PDF comes from http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4443v2

(I renamed it, but they're the same file:
gwern@craft:10593~>md5sum 0709.4443v2 causality.pdf [ 2:53PM]
0e7be7af9c588546449471d783f5bb7d 0709.4443v2
0e7be7af9c588546449471d783f5bb7d causality.pdf
)

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

The mentioned pdf crashes my evince as well, although with a segmentation fault. After that evince complains "Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyze the problem and send a report to the developers." The backtrace points to poppler, therefore I reassigned the bug. I think it is the same as Bug #188079 (which expired but is still present), therefore I mark this bug as duplicate. Nevertheless, I'll attach my backtrace.
My configuration:
mst@lifecompi:~$ uname -a
Linux lifecompi 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 16:35:01 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
mst@lifecompi:~$ apt-show-versions evince
evince/hardy uptodate 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
mst@lifecompi:~$ apt-show-versions libcairo2
libcairo2/hardy uptodate 1.6.0-0ubuntu2
mst@lifecompi:~$ apt-show-versions libpoppler2
libpoppler2/hardy uptodate 0.6.4-1ubuntu1