Public bug reported: When using Evince as PDF viewer for work with LaTeX, Evince often crashes when pdflatex rewrites the PDF. This seems much likely to happen when pdflatex ended with an error in normal stop mode (-interaction errorstopmode). It happens however, in other pdflatex interaction modes and possibly even when the file is rewritten without any errors (although less likely).
There are or were similar bugs, namely Bug #36250, Bug #16973, and Bug #137635, but this one seems different because it is happening only lately to me and these bugs are old. I was using this workflow in Ubuntu 14.04 and earlier and it worked well. Now I'm using Lubuntu 15.04 and the crash is almost regular (when pdflatex fails). I realize that the PDF is invalid, so it is a bad situation for Evince but in past Evince was able to deal with that. I think it was just showing the old version of PDF. If it would show nothing it would be good as well, perhaps even better (but remembering the position in the document would be useful too). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: evince 3.14.2-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-39.44-generic 3.19.8-ckt9 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-39-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Sun Dec 6 08:53:58 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-09 (299 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1) SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-05-30 (189 days ago) ** Affects: evince (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug vivid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523235 Title: Evince crashes when PDF is rewritten by pdflatex To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1523235/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs