Bug#291438: tetex-bin: dvipdfm segfaults when used with hyperref and hypertex

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu_r@users.sf.net> wrote:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-25
> Severity: important
>
> dvipdfm segfaults on the following trivial LaTeX file.
>
> %----------------------------------------------------------------------
> % test.tex
> \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage[hypertex]{hyperref}
> \begin{document}
> This is a simple test.
> \end{document}
> %----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If you compile the file and run dvipdfm on the resulting dvi file
> you'll get a segfault as shown below.
>
>   $ latex test.tex 
>   [...]
>   $ dvipdfm test.dvi
>   test.dvi -> test.pdf
>   [1]Segmentation fault

Can anybody reproduce this? Here on my woody-system with backports (and
with tetex-bin_2.0.2-26, of course), it produces a pdf file without
errors. 

> I've also tested this on a machine with a fresh install of sarge and I
> get the segfault there too.  So, this is very unlikely to be a bug in
> my hardware.

I will try it in a clean sarge environment soon.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer