Bug#291438: tetex-bin: dvipdfm segfaults when used with hyperref and hypertex
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
Enclosed below is the test.log file for more details on my LaTeX
environment.
# --------------------------------------------------
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=latex 2005.1.18) 21 JAN 2005 00:25
entering extended mode
**test.tex
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo
File: size12.clo 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
Package: hyperref 2003/01/22 v6.73n Hypertext links for LaTeX
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty
Package: keyval 1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
\KV@toks@=\toks14
)
\@linkdim=\dimen103
\Hy@linkcounter=\count87
\Hy@pagecounter=\count88
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def
File: pd1enc.def 2003/01/22 v6.73n Hyperref: PDFDocEncoding definition (HO)
)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg
File: hyperref.cfg 2002/06/06 v1.2 hyperref configuration of TeXLive and teTeX
)
Package hyperref Info: Hyper figures OFF on input line 1792.
Package hyperref Info: Link nesting OFF on input line 1797.
Package hyperref Info: Hyper index ON on input line 1800.
Package hyperref Info: Plain pages ON on input line 1805.
Package hyperref Info: Backreferencing OFF on input line 1812.
Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined
Package hyperref Info: Bookmarks ON on input line 1916.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/url.sty
\Urlmuskip=\muskip10
Package: url 1999/03/28 ver 1.5x Verb mode for urls, etc.
)
LaTeX Info: Redefining \url on input line 2055.
\Fld@menulength=\count89
\Field@Width=\dimen104
\Fld@charsize=\dimen105
\Choice@toks=\toks15
\Field@toks=\toks16
Package hyperref Info: Hyper figures OFF on input line 2513.
Package hyperref Info: Link nesting OFF on input line 2518.
Package hyperref Info: Hyper index ON on input line 2521.
Package hyperref Info: backreferencing OFF on input line 2528.
Package hyperref Info: Link coloring OFF on input line 2533.
\c@Item=\count90
\c@Hfootnote=\count91
)
*hyperref using driver hypertex*
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hypertex.def
File: hypertex.def 2003/01/22 v6.73n Hyperref driver for HyperTeX specials
)
No file test.aux.
\openout1 = `test.aux'.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for PD1/pdf/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 3.
Package hyperref Info: Link coloring OFF on input line 3.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/nameref.sty
Package: nameref 2001/01/27 v2.19 Cross-referencing by name of section
\c@section@level=\count92
)
LaTeX Info: Redefining \ref on input line 3.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \pageref on input line 3.
[1
] (./test.aux) )
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
1699 strings out of 95732
23234 string characters out of 1194482
63852 words of memory out of 1000001
4759 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
3938 words of font info for 15 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000
14 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
25i,4n,21p,162b,119s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 328 bytes).
# --------------------------------------------------
A gdb backtrace on the segmentation fault seemed useless since none of
the debugging symbols are available in my build. An ltrace on dvipdfm
provides this output in the end:
$ ltrace dvipdfm test.dvi
[...]
strlen("Outlines") = 8
strspn("Outlines", "!"$&'*+,-.0123456789:;=?@ABCDEFG"...) = 8
strlen("Outlines") = 8
malloc(20) = 0x8127e58
malloc(4) = 0x8125cb0
malloc(9) = 0x8127ea0
memcpy(0x8127ea0, "Outlines", 8) = 0x8127ea0
strcmp("Outlines", "Type") = -5
strcmp("Outlines", "Pages") = -1
malloc(12) = 0x8127d50
sprintf("16 0 obj\n", "%lu %d obj\n", 16, 0) = 9
strlen("16 0 obj\n") = 9
fwrite("16 0 obj\n", 1, 9, 0x811ec58) = 9
fwrite("<<\n", 1, 3, 0x811ec58) = 3
fwrite(">>", 1, 2, 0x811ec58) = 2
fwrite("\nendobj\n", 1, 8, 0x811ec58) = 8
free(0x8127ef8) = <void>
free(0x8127ee0) = <void>
qsort(0x812a400, 2, 12, 0x804d820 <unfinished ...>
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
dvipdfm used to work perfectly under woody. On woody I've generated a
300+ document and converted the DVI full of hyperlinks to PDF using
it. However when I run dvipdfm on the same DVI file now using the
version of dvipdfm shipped with sarge I get a segmentation fault just
like the one reported above.
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.
Also note that if you replace
\usepackage[hypertex]{hyperref}
with
\usepackage{hyperref}
dvipdfm runs fine without a segfault. However, no links are generated
in the resulting DVI and PDF files.
Thanks!
prabhu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.10.25 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-25 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww0 5.4.0-9 The W3C WWW library
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.28-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2c-3 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
tetex-bin/upd_map: true
* tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
tetex-bin/userperm: false
tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: german[=austrian-alte_Rechtschreibung], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung], french[=patois]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
tetex-bin/groupname: users
tetex-bin/groupperm: true
tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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