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pdftk package

pdftk fails - gcj.runtime.namefinder

Bug #1001803 reported by Ariel K. on 2012-05-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #779908: pdftk fails with "output" option. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pdftk (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Johann Felix Soden

Bug Description

I'm not sure it's the right place to report this. I apologize if not.

pdftk fails as follows:

$ pdftk shirat.pdf cat 3 output o.pdf
Unhandled Java Exception:
Unhandled Java Exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at gnu.gcj.runtime.NameFinder.lookup(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.Throwable.stackTraceString(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.7rh)
   at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.7rh)
$ pdftk shirat.pdf dump_Data
InfoKey: Creator
InfoValue: pdfsam-console (Ver. 2.2.0e)
InfoKey: Producer
InfoValue: iText 2.1.7 by 1T3XT
InfoKey: ModDate
InfoValue: D:20020101003753+02'00'
InfoKey: CreationDate
InfoValue: D:20020101003753+02'00'
PdfID0: 6fd44e8bdd9de62796b5be9ec2ff3455
PdfID1: 9259b4122327e1bedf8bbb7a2937231
NumberOfPages: 414
BookmarkTitle: Page 1
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 1
BookmarkTitle: Page 2
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 2
BookmarkTitle: Page 3
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 3
BookmarkTitle: Page 4
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 4
BookmarkTitle: Page 5
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 5
BookmarkTitle: Page 6
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 6
BookmarkTitle: Page 7
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 7
BookmarkTitle: Page 8
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 8
BookmarkTitle: Page 1
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 0
BookmarkTitle: Page 2
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 0
BookmarkTitle: Page 3
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 0
BookmarkTitle: Page 4
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 0
BookmarkTitle: Page 5
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 0
BookmarkTitle: Page 6
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 410
BookmarkTitle: Page 7
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 411
BookmarkTitle: Page 8
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 412
BookmarkTitle: Page 9
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 413
BookmarkTitle: Page 10
BookmarkLevel: 1
BookmarkPageNumber: 414

Other pdf files seem to work normally. This pdf isn't corrupted - it opens normally in Acrobat.

OS is CentOS (compatible to RedHat 5.5 I think). pdftk version seems to be pdftk-1.44-2.el5.rf

Thanks a lot.

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Johann Felix Soden (johfel) wrote on 2013-06-15:

Thanks for your bug report!

Normally you should report bugs to the bug tracking system of the distribution you are using.
In your case: http://bugs.centos.org/
The second (less optimal) option is to contact upstream directly ( http://www.pdflabs.com/company/contact/ ).

Anyway, I am interested if the bug affects also Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu. Would it be possible for you to make shirat.pdf (or another pdf file which produces the same bug) available for testing and debugging? Depending on its size, you can attach the pdf file to this report, or upload it to a webspace and provide the link to it. If the file need to be kept private, you can also send it to me directly (see https://launchpad.net/~johfel for details including GPG key).