Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1799068
Title:
gs 9.25 in ubuntu package crashes (but not same version from git repo)
Status in ghostscript package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
To reproduce this, in a fully updated Ubuntu 18.0.4, download
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf
and run:
$ pdf2ps dummy.pdf
It should generate a ps, but it crashes instead.
LONG DESCRIPTION:
I recently updated my Ubuntu 16.0.4 to Ubuntu 18.0.4 I have been unable to
use my printer since them.
Looking in /var/log/cups/error_log gave me the clue to find this:
With the gs executable included in my distro, I get:
$ pdf2ps dummy.pdf
./base/gsicc_manage.c:1244: gsicc_open_search(): Could not find
default_gray.icc
| ./base/gsicc_manage.c:2261: gsicc_init_iccmanager(): cannot find default
icc profile
./base/gsicc_manage.c:1244: gsicc_open_search(): Could not find
default_rgb.icc
| ./base/gsicc_manage.c:2025: gsicc_set_device_profile(): cannot find device
profile
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.
I found information about this error in
"https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59952";. *Apparently it is a fixed
bug*.
So I downloaded ghostcript sources from git.ghostscript.com, checked out
9.25, and compiled it.
To use the new gs executable I did
mv /usr/bin/gs /usr/bin/gs.orig
ln -s /home/j/devel/ghostpdl/bin/gs /usr/bin/gs
And now
$ pdf2ps myFile.pdf
Generates a ps
Both gs executables (the one in Ubuntu and the one I compiled) report
they are 9.25 when I do gs --version.
I have reproduced with some personal pdfs, and also with the sample
pdf in
https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf
It seems to me that there is a problem in the patches you
include/exclude in your packaging (but haven't taken a look at it).
- Information about my system:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ dpkg -l | grep ghost
ii ghostscript
9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 interpreter for the
PostScript language and for PDF
ii ghostscript-x
9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 interpreter for the
PostScript language and for PDF - X11 support
rc gs-cjk-resource 1.20100103-3
all Resource files for gs-cjk,
ghostscript CJK-TrueType extension
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