Public bug reported: Binary package hint: evince
Evince hangs on one ps file: http://uosis.mif.vu.lt/~zemlys/stuff/EKS060523.ps It is a beamer slide. Gv shows this ps file with no problem. Evince just hangs, and starts gs process which gobbles all the memory available and virtually halts the system. By killing Steps to reproduce First way: 1. Start gnome-terminal and enter command killall gs without pressing enter 2. Click on the link above using Epiphany. It will automatically download the ps file and will start evince. 3. Watch your RAM usage go up like crazy 4. Switch to gnome-terminal and press enter. This will unfreeze your system 5. Issue killall evince in terminal to kill hanging evince window. Second way: 1. Download the source of tex file http://uosis.mif.vu.lt/~zemlys/stuff/EKS060523.tex 2. Make sure you have packages texlive, latex-beamer, littex, latex-ucs, lmodern installed. 3. Start gnome-terminal and cd to the catalog where you downloaded the file. 4. Issue commands: latex EKS060523.tex dvips EKS060523.dvi ps2pdf EKS060523.ps 5. Wait for gstopk to settle down, because it has to render new fonts. 6. Open file EKS060523.ps with evince, with the same precautions as in the first way. 7. Observe the same results. I suspect that this may be a bug in tex packages required to compile the file, but still evince should fail gracefully, when it cannot display the file. Also gv has no problems with this file, so evince really has some problem. ** Affects: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- evince hangs on certain ps file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
