gs with KRGB patch segfaults on certain PS files

No movement on this bug? Not even a triage?

This is a showstopper for printing in fiesty! Edgy perhaps even if gs has not been updated for fiesty.

I cannot reproduce it, can you attach the PostScript which you tried to print?

Sure. It's worth noting that evince on edgy renders this file but evince on feisty does not. Probably because it's rendering engine segfaults on it too.

The gs-esp version which I am actually using is this one:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/gs-esp/binary/

Can you test whether this works for you?

With your PostScript file I can reproduce the segfault also with my new packages.

Your file seems somewhat broken, as when sending it to an HP LaserJet 3390 it does not print correctly, but GhostScript should not segfault on a bad file.

Screen display with gs-esp works.

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:53 +0000, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> With your PostScript file I can reproduce the segfault also with my new
> packages.

Ahhh. Good. An important and good first step towards a solution.

Till, can I ask, are you still working for Mandriva or are you working
for Ubuntu now?

b.

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My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.

Brian J. Murrell

For the record, this segfaults in Mandriva 2007.0 too, so this looks like it's upstream.

Can you try also whether the problem occurs with gs-gpl, so that I know on which upstream level this needs to be reported.

For me it crashes also with gs-gpl:

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till@till-laptop:~/ubuntu/gutenprint/gutenprint-5.0.0+cvs20070127$ gs-gpl -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="DESKJET 930" -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792 -dDuplex=false -r300 -sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=0,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=2 -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=- ~/printing/fea19b.ps
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
till@till-laptop:~/ubuntu/gutenprint/gutenprint-5.0.0+cvs20070127$ unable to read client data err=-2
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So it I will report it on www.ghostscipt.com

Reported upstream:

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689065

This one works with the current Subversion snapshot of GPL GhostScript.

This breaks when applying the KRGB patch to the current Subversion snapshot of GPL GhostScript.

KRGB patch for GhostScript 8.5x:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/ghostscript-8.57-ijs-krgb.patch

As this patch is developed and maintained by the HPLIP team from HP I forward the bug report to the HP folks.

ESP Ghostscript is not developed upstream any more and replaced by GPL Ghostscript -> removing gs-esp task

Confirmed this isn't a problem with HPLIP and that it's upstream. Setting to invalid.

A

I got a patch from HP which fixes this bug. I will apply the patch to the next ghostscript package.

This bug was fixed in the package ghostscript - 8.61.dfsg.1-0ubuntu4

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ghostscript (8.61.dfsg.1-0ubuntu4) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/09_ijs_krgb_support.dpatch: Updated the KRGB patch from
    HP to the newest upstream version with added checks for null forward
    device in the graphic procedures to fix segfault bug LP: #69905 and
    corrected "force banding" code in gsijs_open for small images (IE:
    hagaki in landscape).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:17:43 +0000