Bug 159524

Summary:	Okular crashes on postscript file when viewed at page width
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Hao Chen <haomself>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	crash	CC:	frank78ac
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	postscript file generated by R stat package that crashes okular Backtrace

Description Hao Chen 2008-03-18 15:32:39 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Okular load the file, the size of the page zooms in a little, then zooms out a little, this goes on for a few rounds, then okular crashes.

View was set to page width

Comment 1 Hao Chen 2008-03-18 15:34:30 UTC

Created attachment 23951 [details]
postscript file generated by R stat package that crashes okular

Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2008-03-18 15:39:10 UTC

Backtrace and libgs version, please.

Comment 3 Frank Reininghaus 2008-04-01 00:33:11 UTC

I managed to reproduce this running KDE SVN (revision 792359) using libgs version 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-0ubuntu3.3 on Kubuntu 7.10. I'll attach a backtrace.

Opening the file, switching to the "Fit width" view mode and maximising/restoring Okular caused the crash.

I found this bug report because I found a similar behaviour when opening the GSL manual, available at 

http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/gsl-ref.ps.gz

and scrolling forward a few pages. This also made Okular crash, the backtrace looked similar.

That might be an issue related to Debian/Ubuntu-specific modifications to libgs though, see

http://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2007/11/okular-libgs-and-crashes-on-debian-and.html

Comment 4 Frank Reininghaus 2008-04-01 00:34:16 UTC

Created attachment 24142 [details]
Backtrace

Comment 5 Pino Toscano 2008-04-01 00:57:38 UTC

@comment #3:
Cannot reproduce the crash with both:
- Okular 0.6.3 and (vanilla) libgs 8.57
- Okular 0.6.80 and (Debian's) libgs 8.62 and libspectre 0.2.0

Comment 6 Frank Reininghaus 2008-04-01 12:44:12 UTC

It looks like this really is related to the too old Debian/Ubuntu-specific libgs then.

This bug should probably be closed (or marked as a duplicate of bug #155674, because this seems to have the same origin) by someone who can do this.

Comment 7 Pino Toscano 2008-04-01 12:53:35 UTC

@comment #6:
looks like you are forgetting about the reporter.
I want to know more info from him.

Comment 8 Pino Toscano 2008-06-11 17:39:07 UTC

Hao, any news about this crash?

Comment 9 Pino Toscano 2008-10-11 22:47:55 UTC

No futher news from the reporter in the last 7 months, and the crash analysis in comment #3 and #6 look correct, so assuming it was not an Okular problem.
Please reopen if there are further useful information.