Bug 89291 – ps2pdf (1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 pdf versions) exits with ERROR -15 while converting to pdf some postscript files

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Michele Franceschini 2005-04-16 01:52:41 UTC]

I found that both ghostscript 7.0x and ghostscript-afpl 8.15 (which gs keeps defining as "GPL Ghostscript 8.15") show problems while converting some (latex+dvips generated) postscript files:

ps2pdf12 prova.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.15: ERROR -15 closing the device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation.

ps2pdf14 prova.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.15: ERROR -15 closing the device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation.

ps2pdf13 prova.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.15: ERROR -15 closing the device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation.

This can be intended as a Gentoo-related bug in two ways:

1) With other builds of ghostscript (such, e.g., an old SuSE 8.1 with ESP Ghostscript 7.05) it worked fine on every file (included the bug-generating one ;-)

2) I found that ghostscript-afpl 8.50 solves this problem, but, unfortunately there is no ebuild for it, nor stable nor unstable. I checked for ghostscript-afpl 8.50 in bus, but seems that ebuild construction for this package has stopped...

I verified this bug over four x86 gentoo-linux boxes.
Michele

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take the right file, such, e.g. http://www.tlc.unipr.it/mfrance/gs_bug.ps
2. run "ps2pdf gs_bug.ps" (or  ps2pdf12, ps2pdf13, ps2pdf14)
3. Enjoy error message ;-)

Actual Results:  
>ps2pdf12 prova.ps
GPL Ghostscript 8.15: ERROR -15 closing the device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for
code explanation.
>

Expected Results:  
>ps2pdf12 prova.ps
>

and prova.pdf present in the directory

I believe this bug is major since pdf creation is a key feature of every
GNU/Linux system.

[Comment 1 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-01-14 12:00:28 UTC]

still happens with 8.53?