Bugs item #4303, was opened at 2010-02-25 13:06 Status: Open Priority: 3 Submitted By: Jeremy Johnson (redwood) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: pdftex segfaults Category: None Group: None Resolution: None Initial Comment: $ pdftex -version pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (Web2C 2009) kpathsea version 5.0.0 Copyright 2009 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the pdfTeX source. Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). Compiled with libpng 1.2.40; using libpng 1.2.42 Compiled with zlib 1.2.3; using zlib 1.2.3 Compiled with poppler version 0.12.3 After upgrading from texlive-2008 to 2009 on both my x86 and amd64 Gentoo systems, I discovered that all my forms/letters containing pstricks logos/graphics were missing the logo images, when compiled via "pdflatex --shell-escape letter.tex" using auto-pst-pdf: \usepackage[pspdf={-dAutoRotatePages=/None}]{auto-pst-pdf} Apparently pdfcrop was not able to crop the images. Since my logos were already cropped when I created them in Inkscape, I worked around the issue by disabling cropping: \usepackage[pspdf={-dAutoRotatePages=/None}, crop=off]{auto-pst-pdf} or by using the pdfcrop option --ini: \usepackage[pspdf={-dAutoRotatePages=/None}, pdfcrop={--debug --verbose --ini}]{auto-pst-pdf} After looking through test.log I decided to run the runsystem() commands manually. So I tried running the command pdfcrop --verbose --debug "test-autopp.pdf" "test-pics.pdf" which fails: PDFCROP 1.22, 2009/12/29 - Copyright (c) 2002-2009 by Heiko Oberdiek. * System: unix * Not found (gs): /sbin/gs * Not found (gs): /usr/sbin/gs * Not found (gs): /usr/local/sbin/gs * Not found (gs): /bin/gs * Found (gs): /usr/bin/gs * Autodetected ghostscript command: gs * Input file: test-autopp.pdf * Output file: test-autopp-crop.pdf * Margins: 0 0 0 0 * Running ghostscript for BoundingBox calculation ... * Ghostscript call: gs -sDEVICE=bbox -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -c save pop -f test- autopp.pdf GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10) Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Processing pages 1 through 1. Page 1 %%BoundingBox: 597 597 686 686 * Page 1: 597 597 686 686 %%HiResBoundingBox: 597.799951 597.799951 685.686284 685.686284 * Running pdfTeX ... * pdfTeX call: pdftex -no-shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode tmp- pdfcrop-5737 This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009) entering extended mode (./tmp-pdfcrop-5737.tex* Cleanup * Temporary files: tmp-pdfcrop-5737.tex tmp-pdfcrop-5737.log !!! Error: pdfTeX run failed! Next, I decided to manually run pdftex on tmp-pdfcrop-5737.tex pdftex -shell-escape -file-line-error tmp-pdfcrop-5737.tex which segfaults. If I run pdftex on the tmp-pdfcrop-????.tex with strace, I get the attached strace.log In case the segfault has something to do with my font caches /var/cache/fontconfig ~/.fontconfig I cleaned out my font caches: "rm ~/.fontconfig/*" and "mv /var/cache/fontconfig/* /var/cache/fontconfig.bak/" but still get same segfault. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jeremy Johnson (redwood) Date: 2010-04-19 20:47 Message: Since I last reported this segfault on 2/24/10, both my x86 and amd64 Gentoo systems have apparently fixed themselves. I, too, can no longer reproduce the segfault. Unfortunately many packages have been updated since then: genlop -l|grep 2010 |grep "[Feb|Mar|Apr]"|wc -l 2257 including 43 dev-tex packages: genlop -l|grep 2010 |grep "[Feb|Mar|Apr]"|grep dev-tex|wc -l 43 So I don't know what got fixed. I had been running pdflatex with pdfcrop=/None so I hadn't realized that sometime between the end of Feb and today, the pdfcrop segfault problem fixed itself. I no longer have "tmp-pdfcrop-5737.tex", but do have the similar "tmp-pdfcrop-6132.tex" included in the attached Bug-pdfcrop.bz2 which was created Feb 24/25. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: The Thanh Han (hanthethanh) Date: 2010-04-16 06:40 Message: can you please submit tmp-pdfcrop-5737.tex? I ran the test but didn't get a segfault. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=4303&group_id=106