Well...I've seen more than one dodgy PDF document crash readers
before.  Seems that there must be features or fonts (as mentioned
earlier...) which can crash readers that were not written by Adobe...

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:44 PM, darren kirby <bulli...@badcomputer.org> wrote:
> quoth the Dale:
>> Matt Causey wrote:
>> > You wanna post the PDF?  I'd be curious to see if it crashes kpdf on
>> > my system...
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Matt
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I recently "stole" me a Motorola Razr phone and it didn't come with the
>> >> manual.  I downloaded it off the Motorola website and was reading, or
>> >> attempting to read, it when Kpdf crashed.  It does this when I scroll
>> >> down to about page 30 or so.  It's a pretty large document since it has
>> >> both English and Spanish.
>> >>
>> >> I did re-emerge Kpdf, both versions of qt that I have on here and even
>> >> glibc.  Those are the things mentioned in the crash report.  It still
>> >> crashes.  Could this be something besides Kpdf?  Anybody else see
>> >> something in the crash log?
>> >>
>> >> Here is the crash log:
>> >>
>> >> (no debugging symbols found)
>> >> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
>> >> (no debugging symbols found)
>> >>
>> >> <SNIP >
>> >>
>> >> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>> >> [New Thread 0xb697e6d0 (LWP 25418)]
>> >> [New Thread 0xb5c3db90 (LWP 25485)]
>> >> (no debugging symbols found)
>> >> (no debugging symbols found)
>> >>
>> >> < SNIP >
>> >>
>> >> 0xb716a568 in QObject::activate_signal () from
>> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #0  0xb716a568 in QObject::activate_signal
>> >> () from
>> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> >> #1  0xb74955bc in QApplication::guiThreadAwake ()
>> >>   from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> >> #2  0xb70bac22 in QEventLoop::processEvents ()
>> >>   from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
>> >> #3  0xb71210f0 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from
>> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #4  0xb7120f76 in QEventLoop::exec () from
>> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #5  0xb710a4af in QApplication::exec () from
>> >> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 #6  0x0805005c in ?? ()
>> >> #7  0xbfc8ff50 in ?? ()
>> >> #8  0xbfc90050 in ?? ()
>> >> #9  0x00000000 in ?? ()
>> >>
>> >> I snipped out the repeating stuff.  Thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Dale
>> >>
>> >> :-)  :-)
>> >>
>> >> P.S.  I bought the phone really cheap.  I just "feel" like I stole it.
>> >> LOL
>>
>> It is pretty big so I'll post a link.
>>
>> http://www.phonedog.com/cell-phone-research/motorola-razr-v3i_user-manual.a
>>spx
>>
>> Just click on the link to download the manual.  I think it is about 4 or
>> 5Mbs or so.  I'm on dialup so it takes me a little while.
>
> Sorry to rub it in Dale, but it took 12 seconds to download here. And yes, it
> crashed my kpdf ... and my xpdf.
>
> Oddly, KGhostView renders it fine. Something fishy...
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>
> -d
> --
> darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
> "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
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>
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