Bug#419180: gs-esp fails while processing a file prepared for printing

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Alexei,

Three years ago, you wrote:

> I can't print an openoffice document on a cups printer. Some
> investigation shows that the problem occurs when gs-esp processes a
> postscript file prepared for printing The situation may be modelled with
> the following command:
>
> $ cat prt.ps | /usr/bin/gs-esp -dQUIET -dDEBUG -dPARANOIDSAFER\
> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sDEVICE=cups -sstdout=%stderr\
> -sOUTPUTFILE=%stdout -c - >prt.out 2>&1
> Segmentation fault
>
> Files prt.ps and prt.out may be taken at
> https://208.195-224-87.telenet.ru:4445/.

Sorry for the long delay in responding; naturally I am interested to
see if this still happens.  Is the prt.ps in question available
somewhere?  Have you tried with recent ghostscript and cups?

Bastien, this might be another manifestation of
http://bugs.debian.org/422712

Thanks for reporting and sorry for the trouble,
Jonathan