[Bug 787067] Re: Apple-generated EPS figures in LaTeX-generated PS file cause Ghostscript to segfault

[Till Kamppeter]

A possible solution is to build Ghostscript with the new liblcms2. At
least for me it does not crash any more on your EPS files. But as this
is a major change and the upstream developers of Ghostscript think that
there are still bugs, and this case of Apple-generated EPS files is the
only know cause of Ghostscript to segfault, I cannot put this change
into Oneiric. But I make it available for you and everyone who actually
suffers this problem. It is on my PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ppa

Please follow the instructions under "Adding this PPA to your system".
After that update your system, for example via

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

After more testing (by me, by you, and by the development of Ubuntu
12.04) I will check whether we can upload this package as SRU (Stable
Release Update) for Oneiric. Especially it needs to be tested whether
the switchover from liblcms1 to liblcms2 does not introduce any
regressions.


** Also affects: ghostscript (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: High
       Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: lcms (Ubuntu Oneiric)
   Importance: Medium
       Status: Confirmed

** Also affects: ghostscript (Ubuntu P-series)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: lcms (Ubuntu P-series)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: lcms (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: lcms (Ubuntu P-series)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Changed in: ghostscript (Ubuntu P-series)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: lcms (Ubuntu Oneiric)
       Status: Invalid => Won't Fix

** Changed in: lcms (Ubuntu P-series)
       Status: Invalid => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Apple-generated EPS figures in LaTeX-generated PS file cause
  Ghostscript to segfault

Status in GS-GPL  -  GPL Ghostscript:
  Confirmed
Status in “ghostscript” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “lcms” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “ghostscript” source package in Oneiric:
  Won't Fix
Status in “lcms” source package in Oneiric:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ghostscript” source package in p-series:
  Triaged
Status in “lcms” source package in p-series:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ghostscript

  On Natty 64-bit, ps2pdf segfaults when converting LaTeX-generated ps
  files. I have tried running ps2pdf with no extra options, both as a
  standalone command and from within latexmk and rubber, with the same
  results.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: ghostscript 9.01~dfsg-1ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  CupsErrorLog:
   
  Date: Mon May 23 13:01:29 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  Lpstat:
   device for ccifusp: lpd://ziza/duplex
   device for lj-duplex: lpd://fma.if.usp.br/ljfma
  Papersize: a4
  PpdFiles:
   ccifusp: HP Color LaserJet 4700 Postscript (recommended)
   lj-duplex: HP LaserJet p4015dn, hpcups 3.11.1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pt_BR:en
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=0f18b12d-5cc2-4639-a156-4f9768c9252a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: ghostscript
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (25 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/25/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
  dmi.bios.version: IDG4510H.86A.0077.2008.0725.1734
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: DG45ID
  dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
  dmi.board.version: AAE27729-307
  dmi.chassis.type: 2
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrIDG4510H.86A.0077.2008.0725.1734:bd07/25/2008:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDG45ID:rvrAAE27729-307:cvn:ct2:cvr:

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