Package: gv
Version: 1:3.6.2-3
Severity: important
The problem is that large enough (over 1638 pages) .ps files will cause
the page number scroll list in gv behave erroneously and can also make X
crash. After the X crash, I am able to log in from other computer, kill
X server process, and then my desktop and X will restart. Being able to
crash X made me think that this bug might be also rates ad critical, but
1638 page files are not very common...
The problem appears while viewing documents with more that 1638 pages.
I am able to repeat the behaviour by creating a file having enough pages
and trying to select page number 1639 in the scroll list. (I can
provide a small perl script to create latex file of desired size, and
then feeding the file to latex -> dvips -> gv.)
The pagenumber scrollbar is OK (all page numbers are visible) if the
document has 1638 or less pages, but turns blind, when the document has
1639 or more pages. I can uncover the page numbers 1-1638 by mousing
over them, though, and I can then click those numbers to jump to desided
page.
The crash seems to happen, when the pagenumber scrollbar window wants to
higlight page number 1639 (which is not visible). I can view the
contents of that page, and beyond, if I keep the scroll list positioned
so that number 1639 is outside the visble part of the scroll list.
Crash will happen if I try to choose that point in scrollbar by mouse, or
when i sroll up/down by keyboard commands (PageUp/PageDown) AND that
position in scrollbar window should be visible. It will not crash if the
point of page number 1639 is outside scrollbar window, or if I scroll
up/down on other pages even if their numbers should be in the scrolbar
window.
Crash will not happen, if I jump directly to last page (by keyboard
End-key), and then scroll up (by keyboard PageUp). This way I am able
to see the contents of all pages, even when there are more than 1639
pages in the document.
Feel free to request more information about this, if needed.
I will make another bug report to Xt maintainers about this same problem.
-juha
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-486
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Versions of packages gv depends on:
ii gs 8.54.dfsg.1-5etch1 Transitional package
ii gs-esp [gs] 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1etch1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii gs-gpl [gs] 8.54.dfsg.1-5etch1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-14 Xaw3d widget set
gv recommends no packages.
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