[Bug 779908] Re: pdftk fails with "output" option

[Johann Felix Soden]

Thanks for all testing and the helpful reports!

I hope that I have found the reason now why the patch has stopped to work:
Since Ubuntu Natty (10.4) the language setting is no longer only by the LANG environment variable, but now 
additionally by the LC_MESSAGES, which pdftk does not overwrite yet.

So please try, if 
 LC_MESSAGES=C pdftk ...
or
 LC_MESSAGES= pdftk ... 
works.

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Title:
  pdftk fails with "output" option

Status in “gcj-4.5” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “pdftk” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: pdftk

  When invoking pdftk with `pdftk a.pdf output /tmp/b.pdf` (I also tried
  `pdftk a.pdf cat output /tmp/b.pdf`), pdftk fails with the following
  messages:

  Unhandled Java Exception:
  Unhandled Java Exception:
  java.lang.NullPointerException
     at gnu.gcj.runtime.NameFinder.lookup(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.VMThrowable.getStackTrace(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.Throwable.stackTraceString(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.11)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: pdftk 1.44-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon May  9 14:51:36 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_AT.utf8
   LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: pdftk
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (11 days ago)

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