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ghostscript package

Ghostscript is consuming all my memory when opening the attached file

Bug #125316 reported by Celso Providelo
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Nominated for Feisty by Celso Providelo

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ghostscript

I don't understand very well what is going on ... but the Encapsulated Postscript attached was generated in Debian etch and apparently uses ISO fonts.

It opens normally in OpenSuse (7.2) (evince & convert) and probably in other distros ... but crashes horribly in ubuntu/feisty (with all security updates installed)

Tags: gs-esp
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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :
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nglnx (nglnx) wrote :

This is a know issue. This happens because of a bug in upstream gs-esp.

The way I solved it was by doing:

sudo apt-get install gs-gpl
sudo update-alternatives --config gs (choose gs-gpl)

This install installs the gpl flavor of ghostscript and makes it the default handler for ghostscript requests.

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Celso Providelo (cprov) wrote :

Yes, that works...

The same issue was mentioned, in a much less alarming manner, in bug 98526.

I'm happy with the solution, the bug can be marked either as 'Invalid' or as 'Duplicated' (not sure if it can be considered the same issue).

Thank you

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

This bug is not a duplicate of bug 98526 but of bug 108159. ESP Ghostscript consumes all memory on all documents with a font which is missing on the system.

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Brandon Applegate (vom) wrote :

It seems even after installing gs-gpl and running update-alternatives that CUPS still uses gs-esp. Is there an extra step to get CUPS to full embrace gs-gpl ?

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