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Evince crashes when closing a PDF (a race condition)

evince-44~rc-1.fc38.x86_64 (on Fedora 38 Beta) crashes very often when closing a PDF. It seems to be a race condition. Originally I thought some specific PDFs cause the crash, but later, even "ok" PDFs started to crash as well. Today, all PDFs I try cause the crash 🙂 So it seems to behave randomly.

Example crashing (today) PDF:
https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf

The backtrace seems to be different each time the crash happens. Here's one example:

Thread no. 1 (35 frames)
 #0 _gtk_css_value_unref at ../gtk/gtkcssvalue.c:66
 #2 gtk_css_static_style_dispose at ../gtk/gtkcssstaticstyle.c:81
 #4 gtk_css_node_finalize at ../gtk/gtkcssnode.c:251
 #6 gtk_style_context_finalize at ../gtk/gtkstylecontext.c:384
 #8 gtk_widget_finalize at ../gtk/gtkwidget.c:12381
 #10 gtk_container_destroy at ../gtk/gtkcontainer.c:1702

You can see 5 different tracebacks here: