Re: Poppler error: "floating point exception" (lenny)
On Sunday 19 December 2010 10:50:09 am Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:20:10 +0000, Lisi wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 December 2010 16:37:01 Camaleón wrote:
> >> I am getting a "floating point exception" error message from Evince
> >> when opening some PDF files (a sample is linked bellow). The file gets
> >> opened but as soon as I'm reading pages (page 1, page 2, page 3...), at
> >> some point Evince closes by itself. When running Evince from command
> >> line, as soon as it breaks, I can see the above mentioned error.
>
> (...)
>
> >> Can someone please confirm this problem?
> >
> > I have tried both Evince and the GIMP.
> >
> > Evince was fine started from the GUI. When started from the CLI it was
> > fine at first, but around the 6th page I looked at it crashed thus:
> >
> > lisi@Tux:~$ evince KXTG7531-MUL.PDF
> > Floating point exception
> > lisi@Tux:~$
>
> Yep, thanks for confirming, Lisi! :-)
>
> > The GIMP failed, but with a different error message from that you got,
> > which was the same both when started from the GUI and when started from
> > the CLI. A box came up saying:
> >
> > GIMP Message
> > Opening 'home/lisi/KXTG7531-MUL.PDF' failed: Portable Document Format
> > plug-In could not open image.
>
> Hum... you should get the same message than me. Try with this:
>
> ***
> gimp /home/lisi/KXTG7531-MUL.PDF
> ***
>
> Close the popup window of Gimp and review the error you get in console.
>
> Not sure what to do about this... Lenny only gets updates for security
> issues and this looks like a plain and harmless (though annoying) error,
> what do you people think, should I open a bug report for this? :-?
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
Squeeze (evince) handles pdf's much better than Lenny, one of the big reasons I
upgraded to Squeeze. The poppler 'stuff' has been getting improvements, good
reason to upgrade for me
--
Peace,
Greg
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