Zathura crashing on segmentation fault

[jason-li-z]

I'm not sure if this is on my end or not, but after opening up a .pdf file from a directory in my terminal (iTerm 2 w/ zsh) about 20 seconds or so I crash with the error saying

"[1] 76878 segmentation fault zathura pdfFileName.pdf"

Any ideas what's this from, such as anything from my end?

On Mac OS with the newest update.

[zegervdv]

Did you do an update or a clean install? If not the latter, can you try removing girara and zathura and install again?
Also try using a full file path.

[jason-li-z]

It was a clean install as it was my first time stumbling upon the github repo.

I've tried brew uninstall zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura, and girara and then did a brew update and brew cleanup, then reinstalled zathura & zathura pdf-poppler following the mkdir process all over again, and reopened the file using full path but still the segmentation error still occurs

Edit: It doesn't always crash, but sometimes it doesn't crash for the first few minutes and then randomly gets a segmentation fault error.

[zegervdv]

Is it always with the same pdf? Maybe it's a certain page that triggers it?

[jason-li-z]

Any pdf at any path can crash, I'm not sure if it's a certain page as I just shift+j / shift+k through the pages after I resize it a bit, sometimes it crashes immediately after opening and sometimes it just takes a while to crash

[zegervdv]

Would you mind running with GDB?
Not sure if it will tell us much, but it might at least point at where the segfault is coming from.

[jason-li-z]

I've never used GDB, but I've just installed gdb through homebrew. How might I go about running zathura with gdb?

[zegervdv]

gdb --args $(which zathura) <path/to/pdf>

You will need to type r to make it start.

[jason-li-z]

Gotcha. This was what I got back from gdb.

`Starting program: /usr/local/bin/zathura userPath/tree_questions.pdf
[New Thread 0xf03 of process 6703]
[New Thread 0x1603 of process 6703]
[New Thread 0x2803 of process 6703]
warning: unhandled dyld version (16)
[New Thread 0xf0f of process 6703]
[New Thread 0x1703 of process 6703]
[New Thread 0x2303 of process 6703]
[New Thread 0x2403 of process 6703]
[New Thread 0x2503 of process 6703]
[New Thread 0x2603 of process 6703]
[New Thread 0x2703 of process 6703]

Thread 3 received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0000000101f6e968 in ?? ()`

Hopefully this provides some insight!

[zegervdv]

Not that much sadly.
Can you try installing an older version (not sure how to do that) and see if it also happens there?

I will try later to see if I can somehow reproduce it locally.

[zegervdv]

@jason-li-z I just realised I never got back to this. Do you still have the issue with the latest version?

[jason-li-z]

@zegervdv no worries! I'm currently running MacOS Big Sur 11.2 Beta 2, and the same problem still persists even after reinstalling/updating to the latest.

Update: I think I may have found the issue. No crashes if I choose a pdf with no direct links (a clickable area from the pdf that directs me to page xyz). But I do get segmentation fault with pdf's that does have clickable content.

For recreation purposes if you'd like, here was the book with clickable content that I was using: https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf

[Bekon241]

I have same problem with djvu files and i use puppy bionic 8 x64... i cant resole this pdf work normal only this never. On puppy fossa 9 all work normal but not in that distro :(

[zegervdv]

Seems like this is an issue with zathura itself then, better report it to the developers at pwmt.org