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and subject line Re: Bug#1127969: evince: Crash on startup even without
parameters, ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed
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regarding evince: Crash on startup even without parameters,
ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed
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1127969: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1127969
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: evince
Version: 48.1-4+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
evince crashes on startup, even without any parameters / files; this seems to
be caused by AppArmor:
$ evince
(org.gnome.Evince:7829): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:18:12.119: Could not load a pixbuf
from /org/gtk/libgtk/icons/16x16/status/dialog-password-symbolic.symbolic.png.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
**
Gtk:ERROR:../../../gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion
failed (error == NULL): Failed to load
/usr/share/icons/breeze/status/64/image-missing.svg: Could not spawn `"bwrap"
"--unshare-all" "--die-with-parent" "--chdir" "/" "--ro-bind" "/usr" "/usr"
"--dev" "/dev" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/ld.so.cache" "/etc/ld.so.cache"
"--ro-bind-try" "/nix/store" "/nix/store" "--tmpfs" "/tmp-home" "--tmpfs"
"/tmp-run" "--clearenv" "--setenv" "HOME" "/tmp-home" "--setenv"
"XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" "/tmp-run" "--setenv" "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" "/run/user/1000"
"--symlink" "/usr/lib32" "/lib32" "--symlink" "/usr/lib" "/lib" "--symlink"
"/usr/libx32" "/libx32" "--symlink" "/usr/lib64" "/lib64" "--ro-bind-try"
"/etc/fonts/conf.d" "/etc/fonts/conf.d" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf"
"/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/hsc/.cache/fontconfig"
"/home/hsc/.cache/fontconfig" "--ro-bind-try"
"/home/hsc/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf"
"/home/hsc/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/hsc/.fonts"
"/home/hsc/.fonts" "--ro-bind-try" "/var/cache/fontconfig"
"/var/cache/fontconfig" "--bind-try"
"/home/hsc/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg"
"/home/hsc/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--setenv"
"XDG_CACHE_HOME"
"/home/hsc/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--seccomp"
"24" "/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--dbus-fd" "23"`: Permission
denied (os error 13) (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 0)
Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../../../gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon:
assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load
/usr/share/icons/breeze/status/64/image-missing.svg: Could not spawn `"bwrap"
"--unshare-all" "--die-with-parent" "--chdir" "/" "--ro-bind" "/usr" "/usr"
"--dev" "/dev" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/ld.so.cache" "/etc/ld.so.cache"
"--ro-bind-try" "/nix/store" "/nix/store" "--tmpfs" "/tmp-home" "--tmpfs"
"/tmp-run" "--clearenv" "--setenv" "HOME" "/tmp-home" "--setenv"
"XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" "/tmp-run" "--setenv" "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" "/run/user/1000"
"--symlink" "/usr/lib32" "/lib32" "--symlink" "/usr/lib" "/lib" "--symlink"
"/usr/libx32" "/libx32" "--symlink" "/usr/lib64" "/lib64" "--ro-bind-try"
"/etc/fonts/conf.d" "/etc/fonts/conf.d" "--ro-bind-try" "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf"
"/etc/fonts/fonts.conf" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/hsc/.cache/fontconfig"
"/home/hsc/.cache/fontconfig" "--ro-bind-try"
"/home/hsc/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf"
"/home/hsc/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf" "--ro-bind-try" "/home/hsc/.fonts"
"/home/hsc/.fonts" "--ro-bind-try" "/var/cache/fontconfig"
"/var/cache/fontconfig" "--bind-try"
"/home/hsc/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg"
"/home/hsc/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--setenv"
"XDG_CACHE_HOME"
"/home/hsc/.cache/glycin/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--seccomp"
"24" "/usr/libexec/glycin-loaders/2+/glycin-svg" "--dbus-fd" "23"`: Permission
denied (os error 13) (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 0)
Aborted (core dumped) evince
$ sudo dmesg
[...]
[ 2161.919187] kauditd_printk_skb: 123 callbacks suppressed
[ 2161.919193] audit: type=1400 audit(1771091101.388:1186): apparmor="DENIED"
operation="exec" class="file" profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/bwrap"
pid=16178 comm="blocking-2" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
[ 2161.919199] audit: type=1400 audit(1771091101.388:1187): apparmor="DENIED"
operation="exec" class="file" profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/bwrap"
pid=16178 comm="blocking-2" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
[ 2161.922439] audit: type=1400 audit(1771091101.388:1188): apparmor="DENIED"
operation="exec" class="file" profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/bwrap"
pid=16180 comm="gly-hdl-loader" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000
ouid=0
[ 2161.922449] audit: type=1400 audit(1771091101.388:1189): apparmor="DENIED"
operation="exec" class="file" profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/bwrap"
pid=16180 comm="gly-hdl-loader" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000
ouid=0
[ 2161.929531] audit: type=1400 audit(1771091101.396:1190): apparmor="DENIED"
operation="exec" class="file" profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/bwrap"
pid=16182 comm="gly-hdl-loader" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000
ouid=0
[ 2161.929541] audit: type=1400 audit(1771091101.396:1191): apparmor="DENIED"
operation="exec" class="file" profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/bin/bwrap"
pid=16182 comm="gly-hdl-loader" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000
ouid=0
After disabling the evince AppArmor profile (which is only desirable as a
temporary workaround), evince works as expected:
$ sudo aa-disable /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.18.9+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.49.0-4
ii evince-common 48.1-4
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 50~alpha-1
ii libatk1.0-0t64 2.59.1-2
ii libc6 2.42-11+b1
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.18.4-3
ii libcairo2 1.18.4-3
ii libevdocument3-4t64 48.1-4+b1
ii libevview3-3t64 48.1-4+b1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.44.5+dfsg-3
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.87.2-3
ii libgnome-desktop-3-20t64 44.5-1
ii libgtk-3-0t64 3.24.51-4
ii libhandy-1-0 1.8.3-3+b1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.57.0-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.57.0-1
ii libsecret-1-0 0.21.7-2
ii shared-mime-info 2.4-5+b3
Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.16.2-3
Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii gvfs 1.58.0-2
pn nautilus-sendto <none>
ii poppler-data 0.4.12-1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM Horst Schirmeier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> evince crashes on startup, even without any parameters / files; this seems to
> be caused by AppArmor:
This is a duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/1127935 . The fixed
version of evince should migrate to Testing within a few days.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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