Re: Problem with new gs

[Philippe Ribet <p.ribet@worldonline.fr>]

Graham Steel wrote:

> Here's your error phillipe:
>
> $ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=lbp8 -dBATCH -q -sOutputFile=\|lpr fp.ps
> Error: /undefinedfilename in --.outputpage--
> Operand stack:
>    1   true
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   0   4   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1036/1476(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:68/200(L)--   --dict:125/250(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> Last OS error: 2
> Current file position is 69361
> GNU Ghostscript 6.53: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>
> However it only seems to occur when you send something to the printer
> rather than to a file, e.g. :
>
> $ gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=lbp8 -dBATCH -q -sOutputFile=foo fp.ps
>
> works fine.
>
> This leads me to think this is covered by bug #138364
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=138364&repeatmerged=yes
>

Thank you for your investigation !
As it's not specific to my printer, I guess that update will come soon (my supposition is that many people use the pipe whereas very few use lbp8). It also depends if it's package configuration issue or new gs source code issue.

    Thanks again,

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Philippe Ribet

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