[poppler] infinite running pdftops

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous, 3 de febrer de 2011, Matt LaPlante va escriure:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > A Dijous, 3 de febrer de 2011, Matt LaPlante va escriure:
> > > I occasionally run into cups servers in which pdftops will be running
> > > seemingly forever against a single pdf.  Currently we're using 0.16.1. 
> > > I would love to be able to provide one of the PDFs in question, but
> > > unfortunately this is a business environment and most of the files are
> > > confidential.  I'm hoping there is some other way we can work towards
> > > debugging the situation.
> > > 
> > > I have one such pdf sitting in front of me now.  The pdftops
> > 
> > -origpagesize
> > 
> > > -level2 [pdf] just keeps churning and churning.  It produced a sizable
> > 
> > .ps
> > 
> > > file almost immediately, then it just stops writing data, even though
> > > the process is still running.  The .ps file never appears to grow,
> > > even if
> > 
> > left
> > 
> > > for several more minutes.  This behavior hangs up cups something awful,
> > 
> > but
> > 
> > > I can also reproduce it manually.
> > > 
> > > I fired up the process in gdb, waited for a few minutes, and then
> > > stopped the process.  Each time, the output was:
> > > 
> > > 0x00007ffff7b3e254 in Splash::pipeRun (this=<value optimized out>,
> > > pipe=0x7fffffffd350) at Splash.cc:402
> > > 402     Splash.cc: No such file or directory.
> > > 
> > >         in Splash.cc
> > > 
> > > 0x00007ffff7b3e269 in Splash::pipeRun (this=<value optimized out>,
> > > pipe=0x7fffffffd350) at Splash.cc:405
> > > 405     Splash.cc: No such file or directory.
> > > 
> > >         in Splash.cc
> > > 
> > > Splash::pipeRun (this=0x7872d0, pipe=0x7fffffffd350) at Splash.cc:399
> > > 399     Splash.cc: No such file or directory.
> > > 
> > >         in Splash.cc
> > > 
> > > Seems to be fairly consistently doing Splash:pipeRun.  I'm not familiar
> > > with the source, and not sure if this is helpful or not, but I'd be
> > > glad to gather other info upon request.
> > 
> > A single function doesn't help much, give us a few backtraces.
> 
> [some backtraces]

By the look of the backtraces and the description of the problem seems pretty 
much to be https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13518

Of course without you sharing the file it is not possible to make sure.

Albert

> 
> > Albert
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > M@
> > 
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