I had exactly the same problem using advi with whizzytex. It seems to come from a faulty call to gs: when advi freezes, the gs entry in the process list looks like this :
... /usr/bin/gs -dNOPLATFONTS -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=x11 -q -dDELAYSAFER - As you can see, there's an extra minus sign at the end of the command, probably coming from an incorrectly erased option in the source code. I didn't want to debug or recompile advi, so I used this dirty little trick instead : - install an hex editor such as ghex - just in case, make a copy of /usr/bin/advi - edit the binary file advi. - look for an occurrence of DELAYSAFER, followed by an occurrence of a minus sign. In advi 1.6.0-12 (ubuntu 7.10), I found this occurrence near 0x001610b7 : 001610b7 : .-dNOPLATFONTS... 001610c8 : ....-dNOPAUSE.... 001610d9 : ...-q......-dDELA 001610ea : YSAFER........-.. The minus sign is at 0x1610f8, with an hex value of 0x2d. I replaced this value with 0x20 (space). -- active dvi freezes when viewing a dvi file with embedded eps image https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156642 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
