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Bug 509366

Summary: pnmtofiasco and fiascotopnm fail on s390x and ppc
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Petr Šplíchal <psplicha>
Component: netpbmAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Petr Šplíchal <psplicha>
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Version: 5.4CC: ohudlick, pknirsch, rvokal
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Description Petr Šplíchal 2009-07-02 13:45:18 UTC
Description of problem:

Conversion between PNM and FIASCO image formats does not work well
on s390x and ppc architectures.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
netpbm-progs-10.35.58-8.el5.s390x
netpbm-10.35.58-8.el5.s390

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
ppmwheel 100 | pnmquant 16 > test.ppm
ppmtopgm test.ppm > test.pgm
pgmtopbm test.pgm > test.pbm

pnmtofiasco <test.ppm >from-ppm.fiasco
pnmtofiasco <test.pgm >from-pgm.fiasco
pnmtofiasco <test.pbm >from-pbm.fiasco

fiascotopnm <from-ppm.fiasco >back.ppm
fiascotopnm <from-pgm.fiasco >back.pgm
fiascotopnm <from-pbm.fiasco >back.pbm

View the images.
  
Actual results:
fiascotopnm: fiascotopnm.c: line 271:
Error: Can't read next bit from bitfile -.
Resulting back* images broken.

Expected results:
No error messages, images converted successfully.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-08-09 19:14:53 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2011-05-31 14:31:13 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-21 06:47:58 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0287.html