Bug#324796: gs-gpl: gs segfaults
Package: gs-gpl
Version: 8.15-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
when trying to call ps2pdf14 to convert a simple ps file, gs segfaults.
downgrading to 8.15-2 fixed the problem.
$ gdb /usr/bin/gs-gpl
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This GDB was configured as "powerpc-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) r -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite "-sOutputFile=paper.pdf" $OPTION
S -c .setpdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -f "journal.ps"
Starting program: /usr/bin/gs-gpl -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite "-sOutp
utFile=paper.pdf" $OPTIONS -c .setpdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -f "journal.
ps"
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Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x10095640 in jpeg_get_small ()
(gdb) The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y
cheers, piem
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-power4-smp
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gs-gpl depends on:
ii gs-common 0.3.9 Common files for different Ghostsc
ii libc6 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1.0.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gs-gpl recommends:
ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
pn psfontmgr <none> (no description available)
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