#1128096 papers: Papers crashes randomly with Error 24 when adding comment to PDF

Package:
papers
Source:
papers
Description:
PDF document viewer for GNOME
Submitter:
T S
Date:
2026-02-15 19:53:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1128096#5
Date:
2026-02-15 19:49:53 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

1) What led to the situation:
not sure, papers started crashing when adding comments a few weeks ago.

2) I've been reading a long PDF and adding comments (unfortunately without saving all of the time), and at some stage upon adding a new comment (right click of the mouse, choose add comment) papers crashes.
I find plenty of lines of the following type in the journal:
Feb 15 20:39:58 diskordia papers[7457]: Clipping is broken, everything is clipped, but we didn't early-exit.
Feb 15 20:39:58 diskordia papers[7457]: Clipping is broken, everything is clipped, but we didn't early-exit.
Feb 15 20:39:59 diskordia papers[7457]: Clipping is broken, everything is clipped, but we didn't early-exit.
Feb 15 20:39:59 diskordia papers[7457]: Clipping is broken, everything is clipped, but we didn't early-exit.
Feb 15 20:40:00 diskordia papers[7457]: Clipping is broken, everything is clipped, but we didn't early-exit.
Feb 15 20:40:00 diskordia papers[7457]: Clipping is broken, everything is clipped, but we didn't early-exit.
Feb 15 20:40:00 diskordia papers[7457]: Clipping is broken, everything is clipped, but we didn't early-exit.
Feb 15 20:40:00 diskordia papers[7457]: Clipping is broken, everything is clipped, but we didn't early-exit.
Feb 15 20:40:04 diskordia papers[7457]: Error 24 (Too many open files) dispatching to Wayland display.

And I guess the crash comes with the Error 24.

This has happened a dozen times over the last days, and it greatly causes frustration.

3) Papers crashed

4) I would have loved for it not to crash