evince crash

[David L]

On Dec 17, 2007 10:47 AM, David L <idht4n at gmail.com> wrote:

> evince is crashing for me trying to view very simple ps files.
> I suspect the problem might be an X driver bug because
> evince works fine with the same file under a vnc session
> on the same computer and works on another fedora 8 box.
>
> Here's the error I get:
>
> evince /tmp/test.ps
>
> Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'evince' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 729 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()
> function.)
> aborting...
> Abort (core dumped)
>

This problem goes away if I change my driver from "intel" to "vesa",
so I guess this is an intel driver bug.  I've filed a bugzilla report for
this problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426018
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