bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Pieter Slabbert]

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
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bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626@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?

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Pieter Slabbert]

>> 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.

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:27:53 +0200
> From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626@gmail.com>
> CC: 9633@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?

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Pieter Slabbert]

On 2011/09/30 05:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:27:53 +0200
>> From: Pieter Slabbert<blob626@gmail.com>
>> CC: 9633@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

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:18:32 +0200
> From: Pieter Slabbert <blob626@gmail.com>
> CC: 9633@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?

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Glenn Morris]

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.

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Pieter Slabbert]

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

this worked, thanks

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Glenn Morris]

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'?

bug#9633: 24.0.90; viewing a pdf crashes emacs

[Glenn Morris]

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.