Bug#320627: crash w/ xpdf
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:14:18PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 16:31 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> > reassign 320627 xserver-xorg
> > thanks
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:10:55PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > > At least two people have managed to crash X by
> > > trying to read the Florida law using xpdf.
> >
> > Hi Albert,
> > Could you do two things? Report this bug using reportbug, as it will
> > attach a number of useful documents that will help us figure out what this
> > bug is.
>
> No, but I have filed a bug against reportbug. :-(
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=279168
That's unfortunate. Hopefully the two people with the bug can do so, or if
not, at least send us the critical files (mainly the log in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log and /etc/X11/xorg.conf).
> > Also, install xserver-xorg-dbg and follow the instructions on using
> > it to report problems in /usr/share/doc/x11-common/FAQ.gz (or FAQ.html).
> > I'll merge this bug with the one you report then. Thank you!
>
> That's not going to help I think, since X doesn't
> crash for me. It crashes for two other people. In my
> case, xpdf spews error messages about overflowing
> an interpreter stack. The document comes up mostly
> OK, except that the index (left panel) is truncated.
>
> I'll Cc: both others. Hopefully they can provide
> the required debug info. They are:
>
> Ken Moffat <ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net>
> Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
>
> Given that two other people managed to crash X,
> I figure that chances are pretty good that X will
> crash for you too. I guess I'm just lucky. :-/
It didn't crash for me with that file, I tried it with xpdf. Without more
info, I can't do anything.
- David Nusinow
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