I experienced the same problem on an Ubuntu 18.04.5 system.
It was appearantly caused by .config being a symbolic link to a directory on a
different file system. Once I moved that .config directory to my home
directory, I was able to start evince. If the symbolic link points to a
directory on t
This bug https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues/71
suggests that substantial improvements have been made to the fontconfig
package against null pointer dereferences after version 2.13.0-5.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/commit/?id=efac784b0108d3140d7ec51cf22cb8a4453bd
Please re-open. I have the same bug.
$ /usr/bin/evince
(evince:2751): Gtk-WARNING **: 00:31:32.744: Attempting to read the recently
used resources file at '/home/user/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the
parser failed: Failed to open file
“/home/user/.local/share/recently-used.xbel”: Perm
I can also reproduce the crash with the minimal test program provided in
the bug report (nice catch!). I am on Ubuntu 18.04.2.
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired => Confirmed
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[Expired for fontconfig (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for
60 days.]
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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Using the same sample as above:
==19477== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==19477== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==19477== Using Valgrind-3.13.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==19477== Command: ../../fc-test
==19477==
==19477== Invalid read of s
** Tags added: bionic
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183
Title:
evince crashes in FcConfigParseAndLoad
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Both is attached. Let me know if this is not what you needed.
** Attachment added: "dpkg, which, ldd and gdb output"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/183/+attachment/5205799/+files/evince-info-bt.txt
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Can you get a backtrace using gdb and the output of those commands
- dpkg -l | grep evince
- which evince
- ldd -r /usr/bin/evince
?
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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