Prescanning Segmentation fault

Bug #638465 reported by Jun Geng
16
This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
dvi2ps (Debian)
New
Unknown
dvi2ps (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: dvi2ps

Using the file I attached (test.tex)
latex test.tex
output:
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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, pinyin, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No file test.aux.
[1] (./test.aux) )
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 232 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
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dvi2ps test.dvi

output:
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@(#)dvi2ps (j-version) 4.1j

Prescanning Segmentation fault
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Package information:
1)
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
2)
dvi2ps:
  Installed: 4.1j-3
  Candidate: 4.1j-3
  Version table:
 *** 4.1j-3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3)
generate a ps file

4)
no file was generated and got only this error message

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Jun Geng (jun) wrote :
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Lunatik (lunatik) wrote :

I experience exactly the same problem.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in dvi2ps (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in dvi2ps (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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