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[Walter Garcia-Fontes <walter.garcia@xxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Evince eats all CPU and all memory, while opening certain types of
documents. I've noticed that this reproducible with PDF documents
produced with LaTeX but not with other types of PDF documents.

The culprit seems to be a process called evince-thumbnailer. Even after
closing the document that causes this, evince-thumbnailer continues to
work in the background and keeps eating CPU and RAM memory. If this
process is killed, it restarts itself and continues hogging CPU and
memory.

I attach a file causing this and the stacktrace I produced. I'm
reproducing this in two different systems of mine.

Workaround:
Open the dconf editor, navigate to "org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers" and set the key "disable" to "['application/x-dvi']".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: evince 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Dec 27 09:31:22 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-28 (393 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-09-08 (109 days ago)

** Affects: evince
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug utopic

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Title:
  Evince eats all CPU and all memory

Status in Evince document viewer:
  Unknown
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Evince eats all CPU and all memory, while opening certain types of
  documents. I've noticed that this reproducible with PDF documents
  produced with LaTeX but not with other types of PDF documents.

  The culprit seems to be a process called evince-thumbnailer. Even
  after closing the document that causes this, evince-thumbnailer
  continues to work in the background and keeps eating CPU and RAM
  memory. If this process is killed, it restarts itself and continues
  hogging CPU and memory.

  I attach a file causing this and the stacktrace I produced. I'm
  reproducing this in two different systems of mine.

  Workaround:
  Open the dconf editor, navigate to "org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers" and set the key "disable" to "['application/x-dvi']".

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: evince 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Dec 27 09:31:22 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-28 (393 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  SourcePackage: evince
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-09-08 (109 days ago)

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