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

[Vasilis Vasaitis]

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 03:18:36PM +0300, timo.lindfors at iki.fi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Vasilis Vasaitis wrote:
> > Confirming this behaviour. To the original submitter: it's probably
> 
> You perhaps forgot to mail the original submitter? (Cc: did not have
> nnn-submitter)

  Indeed, at the time I was probably not aware of the necessity to use
-submitter. It's not that obvious to the casual user of the BTS.
*sigh* I've since rectified my ways. :^)

> Anyways, I (not the original submitter) also hit a PDF file that causes
> evince to stop responding:
> 
> 1) unxz LCD-08335-1.pdf.xz
> 2) evince LCD-08335-1.pdf
> 3) goto page 10
> 4) hit page down
> 
> Please let me know if this freezes your evince or not. I'm using evince
> 2.30.3-2 on squeeze on amd64.

  Same here, with the exact same environment (stable / 2.30.3-2 /
amd64). In fact step (4) was unnecessary in my case; going to page 10
was enough.

  So my original assertion stands: this should probably be reported
upstream. Anyone want to do the honours? Or should I do it? I'd rather
not, for the sole reason that I don't expect to be using my
GNOME-based system for much longer, therefore I will eventually not be
able to test potential fixes.

Cheers,
Vasilis

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Vasilis Vasaitis
"A man is well or woe as he thinks himself so."