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evince crashed with SIGSEGV in ev_window_title_sanitize_title()

Bug #1369894 reported by Walter Garcia-Fontes
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evince
Fix Released
High
evince (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Evince just crashed while it was open and idle.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: evince 3.13.91-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-14.20-generic 3.16.2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Sep 16 09:24:16 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-10-25 (1421 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-14-generic root=UUID=dadc68cb-c217-4aef-a751-ba0b61137c4a ro quiet splash
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x43984b: mov (%rax),%rdi
 PC (0x0043984b) ok
 source "(%rax)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rdi" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: evince
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 g_closure_invoke (closure=0x1f56320, return_value=0x0, n_param_values=2, param_values=0x7fff82bc6540, invocation_hint=0x7fff82bc64e0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.4/./gobject/gclosure.c:768
 signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=node@entry=0x1b12f30, detail=detail@entry=1242, instance=instance@entry=0x1c93aa0, emission_return=emission_return@entry=0x0, instance_and_params=instance_and_params@entry=0x7fff82bc6540) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:3553
 g_signal_emit_valist (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>, var_args=var_args@entry=0x7fff82bc66d0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.41.4/./gobject/gsignal.c:3309
Title: evince crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-09-15 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout kismet lp lpadmin plugdev sambashare video www-data

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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 ev_window_title_sanitize_title (window_title=0x1d210a0, window_title=0x1d210a0, title=<synthetic pointer>) at /build/buildd/evince-3.13.91/./shell/ev-window-title.c:80
 ev_window_title_update (window_title=0x1d210a0) at /build/buildd/evince-3.13.91/./shell/ev-window-title.c:124
 ev_window_title_set_type (window_title=<optimized out>, type=<optimized out>) at /build/buildd/evince-3.13.91/./shell/ev-window-title.c:193
 ev_window_set_document (document=<optimized out>, ev_window=0x1cc9a90) at /build/buildd/evince-3.13.91/./shell/ev-window.c:1618
 ev_window_document_changed_cb (model=<optimized out>, pspec=<optimized out>, ev_window=0x1cc9a90) at /build/buildd/evince-3.13.91/./shell/ev-window.c:4785

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Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - evince crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
+ evince crashed with SIGSEGV in ev_window_title_sanitize_title()
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :

Marking as invalid, will try to reproduce with debugging symbols installed.

information type: Private → Public
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
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Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia) wrote :

I can reproduce it:

1) Create a PDF file with tex/latex for instance
2) Open the PDF file with evince
3) Change the tex/latex file and create a new PDF without closing EVINCE

What should happen?
Evince should reload the file and show the updated version.

What happens?
Evince crashes.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)
no longer affects: evince
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)
no longer affects: evince
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → High
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in evince:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That has been fixed with https://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=0aafd8809a5464aef05e73c33e501cea0b413059

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package evince - 3.14.0-0ubuntu2

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evince (3.14.0-0ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/0001-window-title-Keep-a-weak-ref-on-the-document.patch:
    Cherry-pick from upstream git to fix a crash when reloading documents (LP:
    #1369894)
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Sep 2014 11:23:24 +0100

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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