xpdf keep crashing

[rburkartjo]

as soon as i open the program and try to open a pdf file it crashes. adobe and document viewer still work fine. also i uninstalled (completely deleted and removed config files) with spm. then reinstalled. problem still persists

[billyseth]

try running it from the command line and posting any errors that it outputs during the crash

[rburkartjo]

here is output


THIS IS A LINUX COMPUTER HAVE FUN
ray@ray-GC660AA-ABA-SR5123WM:~$ xpdf &
[1] 9901
ray@ray-GC660AA-ABA-SR5123WM:~$ ***** MediaBox = ll:0,0 ur:720,573
***** CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:720,573
***** Rotate = 0
gs /GS1
gfx state dict: << /Type /ExtGState /SA false /SM 0.02 /OP false /op false /OPM 1 /BG2 /Default /UCR2 /Default /TR2 /Default >>
q
cm 720.24 0 0 573.12 0 0
Do /Im1
Q
***** page 1 *****
***** MediaBox = ll:0,0 ur:720,573
***** CropBox = ll:0,0 ur:720,573
***** Rotate = 0
gs /GS1
gfx state dict: << /Type /ExtGState /SA false /SM 0.02 /OP false /op false /OPM 1 /BG2 /Default /UCR2 /Default /TR2 /Default >>
q
cm 720.24 0 0 573.12 0 0
Do /Im1
Q
Segmentation fault

[Toz]

It looks like a bug with libpoppler. Have a look here for the bug report and a work around: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/943195. Note that this bug report is an extension of the original bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpdf/+bug/669211.

[rburkartjo]

tks toz i googled also and found a bug report dating back to 2011 but thought it was fixed by now. my bad

[rburkartjo]

going to mark as solved. if i try to install fix it will also remove my desktop not worth it.