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imagemagick-related crash in DocView

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From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:02:18 +0200

When opening a pdf only the first page displays. I can scroll down this
page but once I try to go to the next page emacs freezesand I get the
message:
emacs: Memory allocation failed `' @ fatal/tiff.c/UnregisterTIFFImage/1817.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
 of 2011-09-29 on box
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10905000
Important settings:
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  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
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Message #8 received at 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:38:02 +0300

> From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:02:18 +0200
> 
> When opening a pdf only the first page displays. I can scroll down this
> page but once I try to go to the next page emacs freezesand I get the
> message:
> emacs: Memory allocation failed `' @ fatal/tiff.c/UnregisterTIFFImage/1817.

Can you please provide a reproducible recipe starting from "emacs -Q"?

Also, how much memory can you use on that system?  And what version of
the libtiff library did you use to build Emacs?

Message #11 received at 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:27:53 +0200

>> When opening a pdf only the first page displays. I can scroll down this
>> page but once I try to go to the next page emacs freezesand I get the
>> message:
>> emacs: Memory allocation failed `' @ fatal/tiff.c/UnregisterTIFFImage/1817.
>
> Can you please provide a reproducible recipe starting from "emacs -Q"?
>
> Also, how much memory can you use on that system?  And what version of
> the libtiff library did you use to build Emacs?
>

emacs -Q ~/Documents/a-pdf.pdf
once in emacs press n

a-pdf.pdf must have at least two pages.

I can use 1 gig of memory and my libtiff version is 3.9.4
emacs 23.3.1 opens the same pdf just fine.

Message #14 received at 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:04:39 +0300

> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:27:53 +0200
> From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
> CC: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 
> >> When opening a pdf only the first page displays. I can scroll down this
> >> page but once I try to go to the next page emacs freezesand I get the
> >> message:
> >> emacs: Memory allocation failed `' @ fatal/tiff.c/UnregisterTIFFImage/1817.
> >
> > Can you please provide a reproducible recipe starting from "emacs -Q"?
> >
> > Also, how much memory can you use on that system?  And what version of
> > the libtiff library did you use to build Emacs?
> >
> 
> emacs -Q ~/Documents/a-pdf.pdf
> once in emacs press n
> 
> a-pdf.pdf must have at least two pages.

I'm sorry, but with this recipe I get just a buffer full of binary
garbage, presumably the contents of the PDF file.  What mode is loaded
on your system that displays the PDF file?

Message #17 received at 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:18:32 +0200

On 2011/09/30 05:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:27:53 +0200
>> From: Pieter Slabbert<blob626 <at> gmail.com>
>> CC: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>>
>>>> When opening a pdf only the first page displays. I can scroll down this
>>>> page but once I try to go to the next page emacs freezesand I get the
>>>> message:
>>>> emacs: Memory allocation failed `' @ fatal/tiff.c/UnregisterTIFFImage/1817.
>>>
>>> Can you please provide a reproducible recipe starting from "emacs -Q"?
>>>
>>> Also, how much memory can you use on that system?  And what version of
>>> the libtiff library did you use to build Emacs?
>>>
>>
>> emacs -Q ~/Documents/a-pdf.pdf
>> once in emacs press n
>>
>> a-pdf.pdf must have at least two pages.
>
> I'm sorry, but with this recipe I get just a buffer full of binary
> garbage, presumably the contents of the PDF file.  What mode is loaded
> on your system that displays the PDF file?
>

for me it opens in DocView mode

Message #20 received at 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:48:26 +0300

> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:18:32 +0200
> From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
> CC: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> >> emacs -Q ~/Documents/a-pdf.pdf
> >> once in emacs press n
> >>
> >> a-pdf.pdf must have at least two pages.
> >
> > I'm sorry, but with this recipe I get just a buffer full of binary
> > garbage, presumably the contents of the PDF file.  What mode is loaded
> > on your system that displays the PDF file?
> >
> 
> for me it opens in DocView mode

That needs Ghostscript which I don't have.

Could someone please reproduce this and provide a full backtrace from
an unoptimized build?

Message #23 received at 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:11:30 -0400

I tried on two different systems (one of which uses libtiff 3.9.4) and
could not reproduce it.

I think "UnregisterTIFFImage" is actually provided by the imagemagick
library. Does the problem go away if you configure --without-imagemagick?

I don't know what tiffs have to do with anything though, since docview
uses png.

Message #26 received at 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:46:54 +0200

>
> I think "UnregisterTIFFImage" is actually provided by the imagemagick
> library. Does the problem go away if you configure --without-imagemagick?
>

this worked, thanks

Message #29 received at 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Pieter Slabbert <blob626 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 9633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:47:13 -0400

OK, but the ImageMagick issue should still be investigated.
What version of ImageMagick is on your system?
Does the crash happen with any multi-page pdf, or just one/some?
For example, does it happen with etc/refcards/refcard.pdf from the Emacs
distribution?
What happens if you just open a png file in emacs -Q?

Can you build Emacs using:

CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 ./configure
make

then run it using:

cd src
gdb ./emacs
run -Q

and when it crashes, post the result of `bt full'?

Message #36 received at 9633-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 9633-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:35:37 -0400

Glenn Morris wrote:

> What version of ImageMagick is on your system?
> Does the crash happen with any multi-page pdf, or just one/some?
> For example, does it happen with etc/refcards/refcard.pdf from the Emacs
> distribution?
> What happens if you just open a png file in emacs -Q?
>
> Can you build Emacs using:
>
> CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 ./configure
> make
>
> then run it using:
>
> cd src
> gdb ./emacs
> run -Q
>
> and when it crashes, post the result of `bt full'?


Nothing can be done without this information, so I am closing this.
If you are interested in pursuing this, please try to reply with those
details and this can be reopened if appopriate.

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