Bug 133094 – ps2ascii from app-text/ghostscript-esp renders ps file as garbage

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED UPSTREAM

[Description Toralf Förster 2006-05-12 02:04:59 UTC]

After an update of ghostscript today I tried to view a PS-file with gs, the file was printed from kate.
The command gs showed nothing - that's why I tried to have a look of the content of that file. I can see the content with "pg" or "more", but not with "less", it shows only crap.

Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
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:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://194.117.143.69 http://85.25.128.62 http://194.117.143.70"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt css cups curl dri dvd emboss encode exif expat fam ffmpeg font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jai java javascript jimi joystick jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libwww live logrotate mad mbox mhash mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png pppd python qt quicktime readline real reflection rtc samba sdl session slp snmp spell spl sse sse2 ssl subversion tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib video_cards_ati input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Toralf Förster 2006-05-12 02:05:47 UTC]

Created attachment 86636 [details]
postscript file (output of lsmod)

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2006-05-12 21:05:16 UTC]

not less's fault

less uses `ps2ascii` which comes from app-text/ghostscript-esp which is what is making it look like poo

run `ps2ascii foo.ps | less` and you'll get the same result

[Comment 3 Toralf Förster 2006-05-12 23:44:02 UTC]

Ah, I updated ghostscript but never thought that this could be the reason:

Fri May 12 10:04:22 2006  >>> unmerge success: app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r8
Fri May 12 10:04:22 2006  ::: completed emerge (1 of 1) app-text/ghostscript-esp-8.15.1_p20060430 to /

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2006-05-13 00:09:31 UTC]

The old version 7.x was definitly better:

n22_uml ~ # ps2ascii /mnt/n22/home/tfoerste/print.ps 

\Gamma Error: /rangecheck in --get--
Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   450   395   8059   1   --nostringval--   1
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   2   3   %oparray_pop   2   3   %oparray_pop   2   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   2   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   5   3   %oparray_pop   (\000\002\000\003\000\004\000\005\000\003\000\002\000\004\000\004\000\006)   --nostringval--   %string_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1105/1417(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:178/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
Current file position is 61625
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

whereas the version 8.15.2 produces crappy output.

[Comment 5 Toralf Förster 2006-05-13 10:37:19 UTC]

current less (sys-apps/less-394) shows now nothing instead crap :-)

[Comment 6 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-05-13 10:40:31 UTC]

I think that is an upstream bug, please report it upstream to the espgs devs.

If you think I can do anything for this in the gentoo ebuild now, please reopen and tell me :)

[Comment 7 Toralf Förster 2006-08-26 00:48:18 UTC]

From upstream:

[STR Closed w/o Resolution]

Sorry, we aren't going to fix this "problem".

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1681
Version: 8.15.1
Fix Version: Will Not Fix