I have investigated this and the crashing line appears to be pure nonsense. It makes invalid assumptions about the in-memory representation and anyway the semantics it appears to be trying to implement would be wrong. gs-gpl does not have it.
I'm doing a test build with the erroneous test removed and expect to upload a fix today. ** Changed in: gs-esp (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- [SPARC/feisty] gs-esp BUS ERROR https://launchpad.net/bugs/76749 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs