I don't have this problem any more, and I haven't got a copy of the recently-used.xbel that would have been causing it. Sorry! Thanks for checking this out though.
On 15 May 2016 at 00:27, Jason Crain <ja...@inspiresomeone.us> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:23:39PM +0100, George Bateman wrote: >> When I click on an Evince launcher from the Cinnamon menu, it causes >> Evince to appear briefly, then close. When I type "evince" in a >> terminal, the same thing happens, but I see the error text >> >> rangecheck -15 >> Segmentation fault >> >> If I call "evince /tmp/test.pdf", it opens successfully, although I do >> see the error "(evince:1219): Gtk-WARNING **: >> gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -76 >> and height 17". Similarly, opening downloaded PDFs from Firefox works >> OK. >> >> This bug behaves similarly to >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762719, but doesn't >> appear to be the same one; I can reproduce that bug, but it gives >> different error messages etc. Also, this bug is not dependant on the >> previous file opened. > > It's probably related to #762719, but I'd guess instead of a password > protected PDF, it's due to some other recently used bad file. If you > still have this problem, can you try to clear the recently used list by: > > mv ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel ~/ > > And see if that fixes it? And if it does fix it, go through > recently-used.xbel to see if you can find which document crashes evince?
