The problem seems to lie in the new format for IETF RFCs, i.e., all official PDF files of RFCs released using the new format result in evince crashes:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8651.pdf https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8653.pdf https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8654.pdf https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8655.pdf $ ls -a . .. $ wget -nv https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8651.pdf https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8653.pdf https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8654.pdf https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8655.pdf 2019-11-05 09:53:01 URL:https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8651.pdf [137041/137041] -> "rfc8651.pdf" [1] 2019-11-05 09:53:02 URL:https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8653.pdf [128896/128896] -> "rfc8653.pdf" [1] 2019-11-05 09:53:02 URL:https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8654.pdf [102866/102866] -> "rfc8654.pdf" [1] 2019-11-05 09:53:02 URL:https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8655.pdf [325847/325847] -> "rfc8655.pdf" [1] FINISHED --2019-11-05 09:53:02-- Total wall clock time: 2,3s Downloaded: 4 files, 678K in 1,0s (654 KB/s) $ evince rfc8651.pdf Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ evince rfc8653.pdf Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ evince rfc8654.pdf Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ evince rfc8655.pdf Segmentation fault (core dumped) Older PDFs work fine, e.g., https://www.rfc- editor.org/rfc/pdfrfc/rfc8649.txt.pdf . The built-in PDF viewer of Firefox can display all the above PDF files. The built-in PDF viewer of Chrome can display all the above PDF files. The MuPDF PDF viewer can display all the above PDF files. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1849888 Title: evince crashes (segmentation fault) when opening file rfc8655.pdf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1849888/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
