Hi, I suggest you to look at #975387 as I think it is related to this issue. On my side, rebuilding libspectre1 solved this on my system.
On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:57:13 +0100 mbrennwa <mbren...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: evince > Version: 3.38.0-3 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: mbren...@gmail.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > Opening any EPS or PS file leads to an empty display showing "Loading..." > forever. I tested different EPS and PS files, and the result is always the > same. The files open properly with ghostview, inkscape, gimp, etc. > > Running evince from a terminal shows the following: > > $ evince test.eps > **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting. > (libspectre) ghostscript reports: fatal internal error -100**** Unable to open > the initial device, quitting. > (libspectre) ghostscript reports: fatal internal error -100**** Unable to open > the initial device, quitting. > (libspectre) ghostscript reports: fatal internal error -100 > > I am aware that this problem is probably related to libspectre somehow, but I > do not know how to test this. Also I suspect the problem may be related to how > evince and libspectre interact with each other. > > The expected behaviour would be to open and display EPS and PS files normally, > or at least to show a message informing the user what went wrong. > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bullseye/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, > TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > Locale: LANG=en_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_US:en > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages evince depends on: > ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.38.0-1 > ii evince-common 3.38.0-3 > ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.38.0-2 > ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2 > ii libc6 2.31-6 > ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4 > ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4 > ii libevdocument3-4 3.38.0-3 > ii libevview3-3 3.38.0-3 > ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.2+dfsg-1 > ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.2-2 > ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.3-2 > ii libgnome-desktop-3-19 3.38.2-1 > ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-1 > ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.38.2-1 > ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3
