[poppler] pdftoppm busy-waiting?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Monday, June 27, 2011, Lucio Crusca va escriure:
> Hello *,
> 
> I have a webapp (php) that creates some pdf files and then it needs to
> create corresponding thumbnail previews.
> 
> The app calls a bash script, which in turn calls another script through
> "sudo -E" to avoid file permission problems (yes, terrible hack I know).
> 
> That last script, running with root permissions, calls pdftoppm to create
> the thumbnail. The exact command is:
> 
> cat ancona.txt.^00.1.pdf | pdftoppm -f 1 -l 1 -r 25 -jpeg - ancona.txt^00.1
> 
> Now all this stuff on my notebook (ubuntu desktop 11.04 32 bit) works
> without problems. The exact same code, on a real server (ubuntu 11.04
> server x86_64) makes pdftoppm hang while eating 100% of the cpu...
> 
> I'm not sure the -E option to sudo is actually working, but I'm not sure
> about how to check that either...
> 
> Any clues?

strace/ltrace/debug it?

Albert

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