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