Bug 27532

Summary:	ghostscript doesn't find gs_init.ps
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dirk Heinrichs 2003-08-29 06:36:53 UTC

When I tried to render a dvi file with embedded eps graphics using xdvi the images 
where not displayed and in the console window a gs error message appeared: 
 
gs: ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6: Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps. 
xdvik gs_io: Broken pipe 
xdvik gs_io: Broken pipe 
ghostscript died unexpectedly. 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. xdvi <dvi file with eps images> 
 
Actual Results:  
The document was displayed with no images, just empty frames. 

Expected Results:  
Display the images. 

ghostscript version is ghostscript-7.05.6-r3 
 
To resolve the problem, I had to set GS_LIB manually: 
 
export GS_LIB=/usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib:/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts 
 
Normally, this should be the compiled-in default (see: man gs).

Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-29 16:09:12 UTC

what's the output of `gs -h`?

Comment 2 Dirk Heinrichs 2003-08-31 22:44:18 UTC

I guess you just want to see the search path, so I skipped everything else. 
 
=> gs -h 
ESP Ghostscript 7.05.6 (2003-02-05) 
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved. 
[...] 
Search path: 
   . : /home/dheinric/.kde/share/fonts : 
   /gentootmp/portage/ghostscript-7.05.6-r3/image//usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib : 
   /gentootmp/portage/ghostscript-7.05.6-r3/image//usr/share/ghostscript/fonts : 
   /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript : /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 : 
   /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType : /usr/lib/DPS/outline/base : 
   /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 : /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType 
 
I see, it has the image location built in.

Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-01 03:57:27 UTC

that's really strange, it has your portage build directory built in, try to recompile ghostscript.

Comment 4 Dirk Heinrichs 2003-09-01 04:24:45 UTC

Re-emerging fixed it.

Comment 5 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-01 04:26:31 UTC

fine -> close :)

Comment 6 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-01 04:38:54 UTC

*** Bug 27696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***