Bug#580655: evince: Freezes when opening a specific PDF file

Torquil Macdonald Sørensen torquil at gmail.com
Fri May 7 14:13:26 UTC 2010


Package: evince
Version: 2.30.1-2
Severity: normal

Evince crashes (more properly, seems to freeze into some kind of infinite loop
while the interface is displayed without any pdf showing), when try to open one
of my pdf files. When it happens, I have 200% CPU usage (dual-core).

The strange thing is: if I rename the file, then Evince is able to open it just
fine. If I rename it back to the original filename, it freezes when I try to
open it.

Could I have some sort of invalid Evince-configuration for this file? It seems
to me that evince saves something in its configuration to remember page numbers
and so on. Incidentally, this file has only one page.

Other pdf files open fine in Evince.

Deleting ~/.gnome2/evince did not work. Are there other files I can delete that
are related to the evince configuration?

Best regards
Torquil Sørensen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common           2.30.1-2         Document (postscript, pdf) viewer 
ii  gconf2                  2.28.1-3         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme        2.30.2.1-1       GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-4         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.86-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevince2              2.30.1-2         Document (postscript, pdf) renderi
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.28.1-3         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.1-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.30.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1  2.30.1-1         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.0-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                 2.7.7.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  shared-mime-info        0.71-1           FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gvfs                          1.6.1-1    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  nautilus                      2.30.1-1   file manager and graphical shell f
pn  poppler-data                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  unrar                         1:3.9.7-1  Unarchiver for .rar files (non-fre

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