Bug 1411725

Summary: Ghostscript regression, .eps files no longer work
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: bugreports2005
Component: ghostscriptAssignee: David Kaspar // Dee'Kej <deekej>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: QE Internationalization Bugs <qe-i18n-bugs>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact: Lucie Vařáková <lmanasko>
Priority: urgent    
Version: 7.3CC: ajschult784, bilias, ernie.joynt, gnaik, goetz.waschk, jcking, jdreese, jherrman, joshua.bakerlepain, kdudka, kent, k.macdonald, mmatsuya, pasteur, prd-fedora, r.wallace, smaitra, tgummels, tomek, wayne.johnson, williambader, woodard
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch, Regression, ZStream
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: ghostscript-9.07-23.el7 Doc Type: Release Note
Doc Text:
Evince now displays PostScript files again Due to a bug, the *evince* document viewer failed to display the content of PostScript files. A patch has been applied, and *evince* now displays PostScript files again.
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Clone Of:
: 1454360 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-08-01 23:03:50 UTC Type: Bug
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks: 1289025, 1305230, 1381646, 1410260, 1454360    

Description bugreports2005 2017-01-10 11:44:25 UTC
Description of problem:

I received a report that evince can't display .eps files anymore, and okular doesn't work either. This has worked before ghostscript-9.07-20.el7_3.1.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ghostscript-9.07-20.el7_3.1.x86_64


How reproducible:

Reproducible.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install evince-3.14.2-17.el7 ghostscript-9.07-20.el7_3.1 emacs-common-24.3-18.el7
2. evince /usr/share/emacs/24.3/etc/refcards/gnus-logo.eps
3.

Actual results:

Evince is stuck at "Loading...".
Messages written to terminal:

invalidaccess -7
invalidaccess -7
invalidaccess -7


Expected results:

gnus-logo.eps is displayed.


Additional info:

Downgrading to ghostscript-9.07-20.el7.x86_64 fixes the problem.

I think this may be relevant:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/1647276

Comment 2 Tomasz Kepczynski 2017-01-11 09:24:09 UTC
I've seen a2ps not working with text, C and asm files after the most recent update of ghostscript (on CentOS 7.3). This is likely the same issue and downgrading to ghostscript-9.07-20.el7.x86_64 also resolved it.

Comment 3 Andrew Schultz 2017-01-20 23:54:05 UTC
Of the 5 patches included in the newer package, only patch23,

# getenv and filenameforall: do not ignore -dSAFER (bug #1380327)

causes trouble.  evince accesses ghoscript via the API (via libspectre).  xfig also has trouble and invokes gs via the commandline.  A simplified commandline way to trigger problems is:

gs -c '<< /PermitFileReading [ (/path/to/file.eps)] >> setuserparams .locksafe'  

Version 9.07-20.el7 would show a blank window.  Version 9.07-20.el7_3 says:
==========================================================
GPL Ghostscript 9.07 (2013-02-14)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Error: /invalidaccess in --.locksafe--
Operand stack:
   true   --nostringval--   --dict:1167/1684(ro)(G)--   getenv   --nostringval--
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   1891   0   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1167/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: Resource temporarily unavailable
GPL Ghostscript 9.07: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
==========================================================
Note that -dSAFER does not need to be passed to hit trouble.

Comment 5 Kamil Dudka 2017-01-24 16:06:08 UTC
*** Bug 1264949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 23:03:50 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2180