Very often, when trying to print something to PDF using KDE's print dialog, KDE shows an error message, saying that the "gs" process ended abnormally. Apparently, gs crashes on certain .ps files. I'm using version 8.15.1. I will attach a testcase. Portage 2.1_pre5-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 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-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.noved.org/" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en uk ru de es" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa asf audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdparanoia crypt css cups curl dbus dga directfb divx4linux dri dvd dvdr emboss encode fbcon ffmpeg flash foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq idn imlib ipv6 javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal lcms lesstif libg++ libwww litz live lm_sensors logitech-mouse mad mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer msn musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl oscar pam pdf pdflib perl pic png povray ppds qt quicktime rdesktop readline real rtc samba scanner sdl session sftplogging slp snmp speex spell sse ssl subversion svg symlink tcpd tetex theora tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wifi win32codecs xcomposite xine xinerama xml2 xprint xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_uk linguas_ru linguas_de linguas_es userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_ati" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
Created attachment 81172 [details] Testcase for gs crash Here's what I get: dima ~ $ gs -q -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=slashdot.pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -c .setpdfwrite -f /tmp/slashdot.ps Segmentation fault (core dumped)
DOes the same also happen with ghostscript-gnu -afpl or gs-esp-7?
I never realized there were multiple implementations of ghostscript... I tried -gnu, -afpl, and -esp-7 - and they all work perfectly, as far as I can tell. So it looks like it's just a bug in -esp-8. (Though I was sure I upgraded to 8 *because* of the bug in 7...) Just in case, I recompiled -esp-8, but it still crashes.
ok, another gs-esp-8 bug :( I suggest you to use gs-gnu in the time being. I have also made gs-gnu the virtual default.
This works for me now with the latest gs-esp-8 version in portage, I also changed back the virtual. Can you confirm?
