#577845 dvi2ps: SIGSEGV every time

Package:
dvi2ps
Source:
dvi2ps
Description:
TeX DVI-driver for NTT JTeX, MulTeX and ASCII pTeX
Submitter:
"Adam M. Costello"
Date:
2025-05-19 07:06:01 UTC
Severity:
important
#577845#5
Date:
2010-04-15 05:31:53 UTC
From:
To:
Whenever I run dvi2ps, it immediately crashes, producing this output:
---quote---
@(#)dvi2ps (j-version) 4.1j

Prescanning Segmentation fault
---unquote---

and a log message like:

kernel: [8971046.561510] dvi2ps[12166]: segfault at 21 ip b7dc31bb sp bffda46c error 4 in libc-2.9.so[b7d4c000+15a000]

where some of those fields vary; the invariant parts are:

kernel: [..............] dvi2ps[.....]: segfault at 21 ip b7dc31bb sp ........ error 4 in libc-2.9.so[........+15a000]

This happens even for trivial input, for example, with foo.tex containing:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
hello, world
\end{document}

I then produce foo.dvi with either 'latex foo' (from texlive-latex-base)
or 'jlatex foo' (from jtex-bin).  Either way, 'dvi2ps foo' crashes.

#577845#10
Date:
2025-05-19 06:51:43 UTC
From:
To:
On 15.04.10 Adam M. Costello (bug.amc+5+@nicemice.net) wrote:

Hello Adam,

Is this bug report still valid?

Hilmar

#577845#15
Date:
2025-05-19 07:03:46 UTC
From:
To:
On 15.04.10 Adam M. Costello (bug.amc+5+@nicemice.net) wrote:

Hello Adam,

Is this bug report still valid?

Hilmar