Hi everyone, at Debian we got a bug report about segfaulting dvips when reading and writing to itself .. (yes I know it is not very intelligent, but still segfaulting is not optimal):
$ latex `kpsewhich sample2e.tex` ... $ dvips -osample2e.dvi sample2e.dvi This is dvips(k) 5.992 Copyright 2012 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2013.03.18:0800' -> sample2e.dvi </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf/dvips/base/texps.pro>. </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr6.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy7.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi7.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy10.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr7.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb> </home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr17.pfb> [1887007337Segmentation fault This is with current TeX Live 2012 (but the same in old versions and Debian versions). Maybe that can be handled sooner or later, but no hurry I guess. Thanks Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org