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From: Matt Causey <matt.causey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents.
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:03:04
Message-Id: ac71f2bb0812311502yaa316fdk24757d87d7ec82c6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kpdf crashes with large documents. by darren kirby
1 Well...I've seen more than one dodgy PDF document crash readers
2 before. Seems that there must be features or fonts (as mentioned
3 earlier...) which can crash readers that were not written by Adobe...
4
5 On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:44 PM, darren kirby <bulliver@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
6 > quoth the Dale:
7 >> Matt Causey wrote:
8 >> > You wanna post the PDF? I'd be curious to see if it crashes kpdf on
9 >> > my system...
10 >> >
11 >> >
12 >> > --
13 >> > Matt
14 >> >
15 >> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
16 >> >> Hi,
17 >> >>
18 >> >> I recently "stole" me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with the
19 >> >> manual. I downloaded it off the Motorola website and was reading, or
20 >> >> attempting to read, it when Kpdf crashed. It does this when I scroll
21 >> >> down to about page 30 or so. It's a pretty large document since it has
22 >> >> both English and Spanish.
23 >> >>
24 >> >> I did re-emerge Kpdf, both versions of qt that I have on here and even
25 >> >> glibc. Those are the things mentioned in the crash report. It still
26 >> >> crashes. Could this be something besides Kpdf? Anybody else see
27 >> >> something in the crash log?
28 >> >>
29 >> >> Here is the crash log:
30 >> >>
31 >> >> (no debugging symbols found)
32 >> >> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
33 >> >> (no debugging symbols found)
34 >> >>
35 >> >> <SNIP >
36 >> >>
37 >> >> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
38 >> >> [New Thread 0xb697e6d0 (LWP 25418)]
39 >> >> [New Thread 0xb5c3db90 (LWP 25485)]
40 >> >> (no debugging symbols found)
41 >> >> (no debugging symbols found)
42 >> >>
43 >> >> < SNIP >
44 >> >>
45 >> >> 0xb716a568 in QObject::activate_signal () from
46 >> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #0 0xb716a568 in QObject::activate_signal
47 >> >> () from
48 >> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
49 >> >> #1 0xb74955bc in QApplication::guiThreadAwake ()
50 >> >> from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
51 >> >> #2 0xb70bac22 in QEventLoop::processEvents ()
52 >> >> from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
53 >> >> #3 0xb71210f0 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from
54 >> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #4 0xb7120f76 in QEventLoop::exec () from
55 >> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #5 0xb710a4af in QApplication::exec () from
56 >> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #6 0x0805005c in ?? ()
57 >> >> #7 0xbfc8ff50 in ?? ()
58 >> >> #8 0xbfc90050 in ?? ()
59 >> >> #9 0x00000000 in ?? ()
60 >> >>
61 >> >> I snipped out the repeating stuff. Thoughts?
62 >> >>
63 >> >> Thanks.
64 >> >>
65 >> >> Dale
66 >> >>
67 >> >> :-) :-)
68 >> >>
69 >> >> P.S. I bought the phone really cheap. I just "feel" like I stole it.
70 >> >> LOL
71 >>
72 >> It is pretty big so I'll post a link.
73 >>
74 >> http://www.phonedog.com/cell-phone-research/motorola-razr-v3i_user-manual.a
75 >>spx
76 >>
77 >> Just click on the link to download the manual. I think it is about 4 or
78 >> 5Mbs or so. I'm on dialup so it takes me a little while.
79 >
80 > Sorry to rub it in Dale, but it took 12 seconds to download here. And yes, it
81 > crashed my kpdf ... and my xpdf.
82 >
83 > Oddly, KGhostView renders it fine. Something fishy...
84 >
85 >>
86 >> Thanks
87 >>
88 >> Dale
89 >>
90 >> :-) :-)
91 >
92 > -d
93 > --
94 > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
95 > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
96 > - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
97 >
98 >