Bug 795391

Summary: Fedora 16 update renders many PDF utilities unusable
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: hp4 <hp4everything>
Component: popplerAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: dennis, mkasik, rdieter
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backtrace as shown at the console where epdfview was started none

Description hp4 2012-02-20 12:03:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
evince, okular and epdfview crash when opening pdf-files

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 16 with SW-update at least Feb 19, 2012

before update everything worked fine, during update  several hundreds of MB and lots of components were updated

How reproducible:
simply open a file

Steps to Reproduce:
1.evince file.pdf
2.okular file.pdf
3.epdfview file.pdf
  
Actual results:

*** stack smashing detected ***: epdfview terminated

similar for the other programs, backtrace always shows the last libraries libpoppler and libc

Expected results:

show file.pdf in window

Additional info:
Comment 1 hp4 2012-02-20 12:07:48 UTC 
Created attachment 564416 [details]
backtrace as shown at the console where epdfview was started
Comment 2 Marek Kašík 2012-02-24 15:41:17 UTC 
Hi hp4,

could you paste here which version of poppler you have? Also, does the problem show up with a specific PDFs? Could you point me to at least one of them?

Regards

Marek
Comment 3 hp4 2012-02-26 15:51:31 UTC 
Hi Marek,

the backtrace in my original attachment indicates for the lib-version

/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.18

Is there any other version you are interested in ?

It seems to happen with different (may be somewhat larger) files, e.g. scanned google-books. An example that produces this error :

www.wilbourhall.org/pdfs/Apollonius_VOL_I.pdf

I've opened this file several times and it worked fine. But after one of the last Fedora-updates it always crashes.

BR and thanks for help
Hans-Peter
Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2012-02-26 19:47:59 UTC 
rpm -q poppler

will tell you the precise pkg version installed.
Comment 5 hp4 2012-02-27 13:22:12 UTC 
bash-4.2$ rpm -q poppler
poppler-0.18.0-2.fc16.i686
Comment 6 Marek Kašík 2012-02-27 13:37:25 UTC 
Hi hp4,

could you try to downgrade your openjpeg library and try it again? Just run "yum downgrade openjpeg*" under root. I think that this is the same problem as in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796500.

Regards

Marek
Comment 7 hp4 2012-03-01 12:00:32 UTC 
Hi Marek,

the downgrade works. But I didn't understand the whole discussion in the bug mentioned above.

What's the conclusion for normal Fedora-16-Users:

- will poppler or openjpeg provide a corrections ?
- will the Fedora-16-team provide a consistent SW-upgrade procedure ?
- do I have to postpone SW-updates until the bug is fixed ?

I think you should reroute this bug to the Fedora team till the problem is solved, so that normal users can still upgrade there systems.

Thanks for your help.
BR
Hans-Peter
Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2012-03-01 14:07:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 796500 ***