This one time, at band camp, Hamish Moffatt said: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:58:05AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Andreas Bombe said: > > > The file I encountered the bug on is available at > > > http://www.kba.de/Stabsstelle/ZentraleRegister/VZR/FormularVZRneu1.pdf > > > > > > Most other PDFs I tried seem to work, a few also crash pdftops. > > > > It seems that you're right about pdftops. However, it is also the case > > that the pdf viewers still exit, implying that they're not handling the > > failure of pdftops very well, or that they have their own crash issues > > as well. Trying to get a stack trace from kpdf gave me over 3000 > > frames, for instance :/ > > I can't reproduce this any more with libc6 2.5-4. > > I'm going to upload xpdf 3.02 soon anyway which also seemed to fix it > with libc6 2.5-1.
I saw some mention in the glibc changeog that there were some problems with a printf implementation (print_fp?) in glibc. It may be that this whole thing was related to that issue. If so, sorry for the flap and thanks for your responsiveness. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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