Whilst setting up LaTeX formulas for use with trac I discovered that imagemagick could not convert eps files to png/jpg or anything else. Upon further investigation I discovered that imagemagick uses ghostscript to interpret all postscript files, but ghostscript was failing despite being installed. The only way to fix the issue was to recompile ghostscript with the vanilla toolchain. Everything else on the system is built with the hardened toolchain using a hardened kernel. The versions and USE flags below allow it to work and convert eps files to png as required. I am not sure how to fix this issue, advice from the hardened herd? It could be worth testing on an x86 hardened system to see if this is an amd64 issue or not. [ebuild R ] app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r10 -X -cjk +cups -emacs -gtk 0 kB [ebuild R ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.2.5.2 -X +cups -doc -fpx -graphviz -jbig +jpeg +lcms +mpeg +perl +png +tiff +truetype -wmf +xml2 0 kB
you neglected to post `emerge info` like the bug report page told you to
I forgot, here you go.... Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (hardened/amd64, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-hardened-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-hardened-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks multilib-strict sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 apache2 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cracklib crypt cups curl ffmpeg fortran gd gdbm gpm hardened imagemagick ipv6 jpeg justify lcms ldap libwww mailwrapper mcal mpeg mysql ncurses netpbm nls nptl odbc pam perl pic png python readline sasl snmp spell sqlite ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype udev userlocales vda vhosts virus-scan xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
I just want to add a "me too". If I compile ghostscript with the hardened gcc (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4) it always fails with a segfault, but if it is compiled with the vanilla gcc (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-vanilla) it works without problem. And here is my "emerge --info" Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2. 6.14-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/ fax /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/pkgdir" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://prince.dmj.nu/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups curl eds emboss encode expat fam fax foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gmp gstreamer hardened idn imlib jpeg lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls no-htdocs opengl pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales xml2 xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
This bug is untouched for over 2 years. Is the problem gone with newer versions?
I am currently using the vanilla toolchain on my amd64 server due to issues like this, so I cannot easily test whether this problem is still present. May be if I get some free time one day...
Well, if someone can still reproduce this, reopen. Doesn't go anywhere.
For now I have stopped using the hardened toolchain on my amd64 kit - it seemed to me that there wasn't anyone actively working on it. I don't have the knowledge or time to figure it out. Last time I tried it the problem was still present. Hopefully anyone hitting it will come across this bug.
