On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:03:17AM +0100, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > > maybe we can get that gs-thing solved somehow, before you throw away your > printer... ;)
that would be nice. > Actually this gs problem made me curious, however, I was unable to > reproduce it here, probably due to a different setup. > Which exact gs command do you use when getting the error? Which version whatever magicfilter, apsfilter, or lpdomatic from linuxprinting.org use. > of ghostscript? Have you tried it with a non-dummy installation of libsvga, the one in potato Version: 5.10-10.1 > if so, did it fail too? How did gs crash when compiled without svga > support? Maybe you could also post an strace of the failing gs command > (or send it to me privately if you feel that is is too lengthy for the > list)? with real svgalib i get the permissions error with the fake one i get something like this: Unrecoverable error: ioerror in .setdevice Operand stack: --nostringval-- Unexpected interpreter error -12. Error object: (f80)op(379:.setdevice)0x10056274 Operand stack at 0x101b5888: 0x101bcef8: 0x13 devc --Gwrx--- 0x01ec 0x10204128 Execution stack at 0x101b58d8: 0x101be860: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x1003aaf8 = %interp_exit 0x101be868: 0x03 file --G-rxe-- 0x0001 0x101c2058 0x101be870: 0x0e null --F---e-- 0x0000 0x1003c218 0x101be878: 0x0b int --F------ 0x0000 0x00000001 = 1 0x101be880: 0x0b int --F------ 0x0007 0x00000004 = 4 0x101be888: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x0000 0x1003c200 = %oparray_pop 0x101be890: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0002 0x101c2e44 0x101be898: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x101f5bca Dictionary stack at 0x101b5820: 0x101bf090: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x5ea8 0x101bf1f8 0x101bf098: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0xf6c0 0x102027e8 0x101bf0a0: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x597c 0x101c61d8 0x101bf0a8: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x5ea8 0x101bf1f8 i also get that on my powerpc which has no svgalib. here is the relevant portion of strace for the permission error: stat("/proc/bus/pci", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0555, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 open("/etc/vga/libvga.config", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=16082, ...}) = 0 read(4, "# Configuration file for svgalib"..., 16082) = 16082 close(4) = 0 open("/plato/eb/.svgalibrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ioperm(0x3b4, 0x2c, 0x1) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) write(1, "svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissi"..., 37svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions. it shouldn't even be messing with svgalib, its not needed for acting as a filter. > Don't know whether I'll be able to help, but perhaps we could start > narrowing things down a little... just for kicks i made gs suid root, which is totally unacceptable for production, and that made it start printing `your not the owner of your controlling terminal' or somesuch. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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