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regarding evince: selecting text and trying to drag it causes crash
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: evince
Version: 3.14.1-2+deb8u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When I select some text, for example a simple word and try to drag the
selection (hold left mouse button and move mouse) the application crashes
immediately.
This is the output when evince is started from terminal:
(evince:7977): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'evince' received an X Window
System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 3201 error_code 3 request_code 141 (Composite)
minor_code 8)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Trace/breakpoint trap
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii evince-common 3.14.1-2+deb8u1
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u9
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2
ii libevdocument3-4 3.14.1-2+deb8u1
ii libevview3-3 3.14.1-2+deb8u1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.14.1-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libsecret-1-0 0.18-1+b1
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4
ii shared-mime-info 1.3-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii dbus-x11 1.8.22-0+deb8u1
ii gvfs 1.22.2-1
Versions of packages evince suggests:
pn nautilus <none>
ii poppler-data 0.4.7-1
ii unrar 1:5.2.7-0.1
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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