evince crashed with SIGSEGV in clear_job_selection()

StacktraceTop:
 ev_pixbuf_cache_set_selection_list (pixbuf_cache=0x21de3f18,
 clear_selection (view=0x21de2018)
 start_selection_for_event (view=0x0, event=0x0)
 ev_view_button_press_event (widget=0x21de2018,
 _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED (closure=0x21c8b6f0,

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630999

Wim: can you attach the document?

I'm afraid not. The content of the document is confidential to the company I work for.

steubens , could you attach the pdf to the report? thanks.

I bumped on the same crash, but sadly it doesn't seem to be reproducible. I'm not sure it has anything to do with the document itself, maybe with the fact that it was opened from the Web browser, or something completely random...

it's any given pdf, i was able to reproduce it with several; you just need to click before the document area is redrawn/resized

heres a handful:
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1070000/1066954/p1231-mcpherson.pdf?key1=1066954&key2=7358983711&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/apvis07ogawa.pdf
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~shearer/papers/pixelplexing.pdf
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/pdf/SOFA.Sept.2010data.pdf

essentially every pdf in my download history; because thats what i verified it with once i realized what did it, i'd had it happen long before that but never figured it was clicking in the client area that did it.

the timing in the bug i posted, that was marked duplicate here; that is the key to at least the bug i posted, remains to be seen if its an actual duplicate i guess

can confirm, evince crashed the first time, the second time it works.

steubens: Are you still able to reproduce the bug on demande? Could you give us precise instructions to reproduce it? Upstream developers would need more informations to fix the bug.

in the bug i posted; it had instructions to reproduce it, unfortunately it was marked as a duplicate of this one instead of the other way around (or not at all)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/661732

and by my own instructions, i can still do it on demand, every time.

i can still reproduce, too

Indeed, thanks for these valuable details. When your bug is marked as duplicate and you think you provided more information than the duplicate report already has, please post them as a comment!

I've been able to reproduce the crash again, and I've let upstream developers know how to do so, thus they're likely to be able to do something about it.

i'll try and remember that next time; i figured the people marking bugs would have actually read them, since report quality isn't uniform

this is fixed upstream now, thanks for reporting.

Will the update for ubuntu only be available for natty? or can we hope to see a fix in maverick?

To have this fixed in another Ubuntu release, you will need to complete the Stable Release Update procedure. Full instructions on how to do this can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates?action=show&redirect=MOTU%2FSRU#Procedure Thank you.

this is still happening in natty b2, did it not get updated?

On Friday 15,April,2011 05:43 AM, steubens wrote:
> this is still happening in natty b2, did it not get updated?
>

No, it was just fixed upstream, but not actually brought into Ubuntu. The patch
can be backported to Ubuntu without too much trouble though, I reckon.

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Attached is a debdiff targeted for Oneiric. I understand that this bug will probably eventually be fixed by the upload of Evince 3.0, but I'd like to get this patch into natty-proposed as well.

Do we not need to subscribe the sponsors to this so that they are made aware?

On 08/05/2011 22:55, Teej wrote:
> Do we not need to subscribe the sponsors to this so that they are made
> aware?

Er, right. I forgot.

  subscribe ubuntu-sponsors

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This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.32.0-0ubuntu13

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evince (2.32.0-0ubuntu13) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/0001-libview-Make-sure-we-have-a-valid-page-range*:
    - Backport patch from upstream commit, fixing segfault in
      clear_job_selection(). (LP: #651931)
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Sun, 08 May 2011 19:18:04 +0800

On 16/05/2011 21:14, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> ** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/evince
>

Here's a debdiff for an SRU to natty.

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@Chow Loong Jin:

The Natty debdiff is incomplete. Could you please make a minimal debdiff against Natty's 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.1, including setting the version number to something more appropriate, such as 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.2? Thanks.

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Here's a new debdiff against -0ubuntu12.1.

Debdiff looks good, thanks!

SRU request:

Evince crashes when clicking on the blank document area during the short interval between Evince's window opening, and before the document has been loaded.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Find a PDF file (the larger the better, so that there's a greater time window)
2. Double click it to open the document in Evince.
3. When Evince's window appears, click on the blank document area immediately. This has to be done before the document loads in the window.
4. Observe Evince segfault.

See the attached debdiff for a minimal patch that fixes the issue. Thanks!

Accepted evince into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

this fix works for the set of steps i was using to reproduce the bug, thanks

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 2.32.0-0ubuntu12.2

---------------
evince (2.32.0-0ubuntu12.2) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/0001-libview-Make-sure-we-have-a-valid-page-range*:
    - Backport patch from upstream commit, fixing segfault in
      clear_job_selection(). (LP: #651931)
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Sun, 08 May 2011 19:18:04 +0800