Description of problem: Program pbmtext crashes, and can't be run under gdb: $ pbmtext "hello" P4 51 29 Segmentation fault in /var/log/messages: Jan 19 14:36:11 ant kernel: pbmtext[5205]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000003174c0b2a3 rsp 0000007fbfffe050 error 4 $ gdb /usr/bin/pbmtext (gdb) run 'hello' Starting program: /usr/bin/pbmtext 'hello' warning: Child process unexpectedly missing: No child processes Program terminated with signal ?, Unknown signal. The program no longer exists. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): netpbm-progs-10.25-2 netpbm-10.25-2 netpbm-debuginfo-10.25-2 How reproducible: always
Please try the latest development netpbm-10.26-1 release. Some fixes were made to pbmtext in upstream because pbmtext segfaulted for any character >127. Also your issue is fixed by it.