Bug 108495

Summary:	kpdf crashes when a watched file is updated
Product:	[Applications] kpdf	Reporter:	Gilles Schintgen <gschintgen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Albert Astals Cid <aacid>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	crash
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Gilles Schintgen 2005-07-03 16:41:15 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

Hi, kpdf is quite buggy when it comes to watching pdfs. This functionality would be quite useful if kpdf didn't crash randomly... I can't reproduce it each try, but the problem always arises after some runs of pdflatex. My guess is that kpdf sees that the file has changed on disk and reloads it, but the file's not yet completely updated and the temporarily invalid pdf makes kpdf crash. There's no usable backtrace, even though the binaries aren't stripped and the debug option has been used for the compilation.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2005-07-03 16:53:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98891 ***