[tex-live] dvipdfm(1) segfaults since latest update

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Wed May 6 03:01:02 CEST 2009


On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Jukka Salmi <j+tex-live at 2009.salmi.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> since I upgraded my TL installation and rebuilt the binaries from svn
> trunk some minutes ago, dvipdfm(1) (version 0.13.3TL) reproducibly dumps
> core on my This is on NetBSD/i386 5.99.11 system:
>
> $ dvipdfm test.dvi
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> $ gdb dvipdfm dvipdfm.core
> GNU gdb 6.5
> [...]
> Core was generated by `dvipdfm'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0xbbb63ec0 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xbbb63ec0 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.12
> #1  0x08075e20 in xstrdup (s=0x0) at ../../../texk/kpathsea/xstrdup.c:27
> #2  0x08075331 in uppercasify (s=0x0) at ../../../texk/kpathsea/uppercasify.c:27
> #3  0x0806e9a1 in kpathsea_init_format (kpse=0x8088740, format=kpse_program_text_format)
>    at ../../../texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c:678
> #4  0x0806f996 in kpathsea_find_file_generic (kpse=0x8088740, name=<value optimized out>,
>    format=kpse_program_text_format, must_exist=1, all=0)
>    at ../../../texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c:929
> #5  0x0806f9ee in kpathsea_find_file (kpse=0x8088740, name=0x807e438 "config",
>    format=kpse_program_text_format, must_exist=1) at ../../../texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c:889
> #6  0x0806fb2d in kpse_find_file (name=0x807e438 "config", format=kpse_program_text_format,
>    must_exist=1) at ../../../texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c:900
> #7  0x0804d807 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfbfe94c) at ../../../texk/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.c:517
> (gdb) quit
> $
>
> Please tell if you need more information.
>
>
> Regards, Jukka

dvipdfm built on the weekend from svn also dumps core in i686 linux
(Ubuntu 8.10).


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia


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