please enable testing and do pacman -Syu and let me know if the bug exists in evince 3.4

Sorry for not responding earlier. The bug continues to exist in evince 3.4.

Can you provide a backtrace?

Not every pdf makes evince crash. Here is the original thread from the forums in which a particular book is given. It should be useful for testing.

Also, it seems that other programs like gimp and inkscape keep crashing under this version of openjpeg.

Link to thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139786
Link to book: http://www.4shared.com/office/fr5ulK56/Digital_Design_by_Frank_Vahid_.html

Also, shouldn't this be an openjpeg bug instead of an evince bug?

I'm experiencing the same crash.

This is the backtrace I get:

http://pastebin.com/ZdV2imki

Please tell me if I need to compile any binary with debug symbols to provide a gdb trace.

@amatriain: it would be helpful if you could compile poppler with debug symbols and provide the backtrace. I see not mention of openjpeg there...

This is the gdb trace with debug symbols enabled in openjpeg, poppler and evince:

http://pastebin.com/HR9Yvphh

I can also confirm that downloading openjpeg to 1.4 makes the bug disappear.

sadly, your traces does not contain usefull informations.

please read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Step_By_Step_Debugging_Guide#Technique_.232_-_even_better_gdb_output
and not forget about adding to options !strip

Okay, funny thing now.

I've recompiled and run again following the instructions in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Step_By_Step_Debugging_Guide#Technique_.232_-_even_better_gdb_output (I had previously followed the guide in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Debug_-_Getting_Traces and the flags suggested there are a bit different).

The binaries I've recompiled and installed are:

poppler version 0.18.4-1
poppler-qt version 0.18.4-1
poppler-glib version 0.18.4-1
openjpeg version 1.5.0-1
evince version 3.4.0-1

Using the recompiled binaries with debug symbols, evince does not crash. I've tested with my pdfs and with the pdf posted by @tokoro.

I've reinstalled those same binaries, same versions, from the repositories and tested again. Indeed, with the binaries downloaded from the repos evince crashes when opening those pdfs.

Obviously there's something different between the binaries from the repos and the binaries I've compiled. What else can I do to gather more information?

i guess is yet another optimization bug from gcc 4.7 since you disabled them (O0). Can you try to use O2 now?

Recompiled poppler, openjpeg and evince with O2 instead of O0. Installed poppler, poppler-qt, poppler-glib, openjpeg and evince. Evince doesn't crash.

Here is a much smaller pdf to test with (163KB): http://vintageair.com/catalog11/pg65wc.pdf

The updated openjpeg crashes because they broke ABI without bumping soname. Poppler has reserved some memory for the structs passed by openjpeg, but as these have increased in size, you'll see segfaults. Recompiling poppler will fix this (and is what I'm doing at this moment).