Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gs-esp
Description
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The default gs on my system freezes
after trying to load inexisting fonts.
Additionally, the system becomes almost unresponsive,
so that killing the required process becomes a real pain.
This makes most problems when gs
is invoked from other programs
such as gv, pstopdf etc.
Note that this does not concerns the other gs version,
gs-gpl, which is also installed, but usually not invoked
since /usr/bin/gs links to /usr/bin/gs-esp.
The problem can be easily reproduced as follows:
$ gs-esp
ESP Ghostscript 815.04 (2007-03-14)
Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS>/blabla findfont
Can't find (or can't open) font file
/usr/share/gs-esp/8.15/Resource/Font/blabla.
Can't find (or can't open) font file blabla.
Querying operating system for font files...
<FREEZE>
Versions etc.
===========
$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l
$ dpkg -l gs-esp
ii gs-esp 8.15.4.dfsg.1- The Ghostscript PostScript interpreter - ESP
$ dpkg -l gs-gpl
ii gs-gpl 8.54.dfsg.1-5b The GPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter
$ ls -al /usr/bin/gs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jul 8 2006 /usr/bin/gs -> /etc/alternatives/gs
$ ls -al /etc/alternatives/gs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 25 16:47 /etc/alternatives/gs -> /usr/bin/gs-esp
** Affects: gs-esp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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gs-esp looks for fonts ad infinitum
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122254
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