[apport] gs-esp crashed with SIGSEGV (output device: cups, driver: gutenprint)

This is probably an upstream problem of GhostScript. To reproduce it we need the following additional files:

- The printer's PPD /etc/cups/ppd/<prnt queue name>.ppd
- You personal settings file ~/.cups/lpoptions
- If it exists, the system's settings file /etc/cups/lpoptions
- The PNG file which you tried to print
- Your /etc/cups/printers.conf file
- If possible, print into a PostScript file with Eye of Gnome and attach also this file (can you display this PostScript file on the screen with viewers like gv, evince, or kghostview?)

StacktraceTop:cmd_write_buffer (cldev=0x80944ec, cmd_end=0 '\0') at ./src/gxclutil.c:196
cmd_put_list_op (cldev=0x80944ec, pcl=0x8094c58, size=4) at ./src/gxclutil.c:223
cmd_put_range_op (cldev=0x80944ec, band_min=0, band_max=8419, size=4) at ./src/gxclutil.c:311
clist_create_compositor (dev=0x80944ec, pcdev=0xbf93ff94, pcte=0x8248bbc, pis=0x805d784, mem=0x804a4e4) at ./src/gxclimag.c:810

StacktraceTop:?? ()

Reported upstream:

http://www.cups.org/espgs/str.php?L2302

Pitti, thank you for your great retracer, finally one gets easily tracebacks with symbols for crashes reported by users. This is a great service also for the upstream authors of the software. I hope many of these reports will get forwarded upstream (and other distros will pick up this idea, too).

I'm glad that it helps. :) Just curious, the second pair of retraces is bogus, the first one is good. How did you generate those?

I have added tags to trigger both 32-bit and 64-bit retraces, and the bug was only reported on 32-bit, so probably therefore the 64-bit retrace is the bogus one.

Martin, as each of these reports is for only one architecture, it would be enough to have one and the same retrace triggering tag for all architectures and the retrace service finds the correct architecture by itself, for example via the "Architecture:" field in the initial comment.

I see that several extra things have been done on this bug. Are the .ppd
files and other things requested still required, or do the devs have
enough info now?

Would be nice to have this info, too, so go ahead.

Can you switch to the GPL Ghostscript with merged ESP Ghostscript functionality as described here:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/README

Does this solve your problem?

Upstream bug report moved

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689201

because of the merger of ESP Ghostscript into GPL Ghostscript.

Can you try with the new gs-gpl packages?

Download all packages from

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/gutsy/gs-gpl/binary/

and do

sudo dpkg -i *gs-esp*.deb *gs-gpl*.deb

to replace your ESP Ghostscript by the new GPL Ghostscript.

Due to change of Artifex' license policy to do the head development of Ghostscript under GPL and the merger of the extra functionality of ESP Ghostscript (ESP Ghostscript is discontinued now), the packages gs-esp and gs-afpl got obsolete. They are both replaced by gs-gpl, version 8.60 or newer. I have already done a first test package:

For Gutsy download all packages from

http://www.linux-foundation.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/gutsy/gs-gpl/binary/

and do

sudo dpkg -i *gs-esp*.deb *gs-afpl*.deb *gs-gpl*.deb

to replace your ESP and AFPL Ghostscript by the new merged GPL Ghostscript.

If you are running Feisty or older download the files from

http://www.openprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/

into the same directory. Then do

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep gs-esp gs-gpl
dpkg-source -x gs-gpl_8.60.dfsg.1-0ubuntu1.dsc
cd gs-gpl-8.60.dfsg.1
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i *gs-esp*.deb *gs-afpl*.deb *gs-gpl*.deb

Answer every question which appears with "y", so that all needed packages get installed.

Or try the distribution-independent binary package from

http://www.openprinting.org/download/printing/esp-gpl-ghostscript-merge/README

The new grand unified GPL Ghostscript will make it into Ubuntu soon, after

- Agreeing on the name with Debian: "gs-gpl" or simply "gs"
- Adding the C header files to libgs-gpl-dev
- Fixing upstream bug 689237: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689237

Please tell us your results with the test packages.

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