Summary: | ps2pdf fails Error: /invalidfont in /findfont -- evince throws invalidfont -10 | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Brandon Ingalls <Brandon> | ||||
Component: | ghostscript | Assignee: | David Kaspar // Dee'Kej <deekej> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | QE Internationalization Bugs <qe-i18n-bugs> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | high | ||||||
Version: | 7.2 | CC: | Brandon, deekej | ||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
OS: | Unspecified | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2016-10-25 16:19:51 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Brandon Ingalls
2016-02-10 13:40:13 UTC
Hello Brandon,
thank you for your report. I have looked into the strace you have provided in your attachement 1122790, and I can see that you or your customer are using 'freetype-infinality'.
> open("/usr/lib64/freetype-infinality/libfreetype.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
Using 3rd party shared libraries that modify the behaviour of RHEL product in any way is not supported by Red Hat.
From what I was able to lookup I see that 'freetype-infidelity' modifies the way the fonts are rendered on Linux OS. Searching more on the Internet I also found out that this software tends to have many problems/issues/bugs.
AFAIK, 'ghostscript' is continuosly evolving and upstream is working on hardening it, but it still might prone to crashing if some assumptions made by upstream are not met. In this case it would be some assumptions about "format" of the fonts. If they are modified in any way, Red Hat can't guarantee ghostscript's functionality, nor any other product relying on fonts.
I have tried to reproduce this issue on RHEL-7.2 in several ways, but I was not successful. Versions of packages used:
- ghostscript-9.07-18.el7.x86_64
- lcms2-2.6-2.el7.x86_64
If you can, please, provide us with some reproducer which does not use the 'freetype-infinality' shared library. Otherwise, I will close this bug in the future.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,
David
The reporter of this BZ is not responding. Therefore, I'm closing this BZ, because from the strace we can see that 3rd party library was used, which is not supported by Red Hat. In case anyone stumble upon this issue (without 'freetype-infinality', please, feel free to reopen this BZ. David |