Bug 111241 – AFPL Ghostscript 8.15 and GNU ghostscript 8.16 crashing on AMD64 when working with PDF files (working on x86)

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description kosatab 2005-11-02 06:30:50 UTC]

When I emerge the ghostscript-afpl (version 8.15) or ghostscript-gnu (8.16) on
an amd64 machine and try either pdf2ps or gs on a PDF file (I have tried 3
different ones) I always get the error described bellow. On my other computer
having x86 gentoo installed the same versions of the software work well. The
problem does not occur for esp-ghostscript (version 7.07.1-r8). The problem is
not affected by CFLAGS - setting them to "-O2" only does not change the result.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge the described packages on an amd64 machine
2. run pdf2ps some_pdf_file.pdf
3.

Actual Results:  
Error: /rangecheck in --show--
Operand stack:
   --dict:7/7(L)--
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3  
%oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   1
  1   --nostringval--   %for_pos_int_continue   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   %array_continue  
--nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   %loop_continue 
 --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1123/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:75/200(L)--  
--dict:75/200(L)--   --dict:104/127(ro)(G)--   --dict:238/347(ro)(G)--  
--dict:20/24(L)--   --dict:4/6(L)--   --dict:27/32(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
GPL Ghostscript 8.15: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


Expected Results:  
conversion of the submitted file to postscript.

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0,
2.6.13-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 x86_64 Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270   
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
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, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ 
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/  ftp://ftp.belnet.
be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/  http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo 
http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/opt/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd eds emacs
emboss encode f77 foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm 
gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit libwww lzw lzw-tiff
matroska mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nomalloccheck opengl 
pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl svg t1lib
tcltk tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev un
icode usb userlocales xml xml2 xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-11-02 10:27:51 UTC]

I only get that on one pdf, that evince claims has invalid utf-8, and that
ghostscript claims is broken:

   **** Warning:  An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
   **** The file has been damaged.  This may have been caused
   **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
   **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
   **** Warning:  There are objects with matching object and generation
   **** numbers.  The accuracy of the resulting image is unknown.

It also doesn't crash, it just exits.  I so far don't see any problems except
for evince handling a broken (or new maybe?) pdf better than ghostscript.

[Comment 2 kosatab 2005-11-02 10:37:22 UTC]

Created attachment 71945 [details]
a pdf file that crashes

I submit a document that causes the crash for me. As I said before, it works
without problem on my x86 machine.

[Comment 3 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 15:55:00 UTC]

Can you please tell this the UPSTREAM ghosstscript developers? I think it is a problem with the source code, not with the ebuild.