Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 611663
strange output from ppmlabel
Last modified: 2013-07-02 19:46:40 EDT
Description of problem: Strange hieroglyphics instead of "hello" text appearing in image. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): netpbm-10.47.13-1.fc12.x86_64 netpbm-devel-10.47.13-1.fc12.x86_64 netpbm-progs-10.47.13-1.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ppmlabel -x 50 -y 100 -text 'hello' bit3.ppm >! a.ppm 2. display a.ppm 3. Actual results: See attached image Expected results: Additional info: Problem also appears to occur on F11 system too.
Created attachment 429667 [details] strange output from 'ppmlabel'
This is a show stopper for me, since software that I developed under FC9 makes heavy use of ppmlabel. Is there a work-around? SOMETHING? This works correctly in the netpbm implementation running under MacOS, but I'd really like it to work here.
Could you please attach the bit3.ppm to this bug to let me reproduce or, alternatively, could you provide an easier reproduce case?
Created attachment 441250 [details] A ppm file that I might want to add a label to Attached is a simple ppm file to play with.
Created attachment 441252 [details] After I executed ppm label command OK, here's the same ppm file after I issue the command: ppmlabel -x 50 -y 100 -text 'hello' before.ppm > after.ppm Note the Druidic runes above and to the left of the eye's pupil (in red).
Do we have a workaround for this?
I've got the obvious work-around: I went back to a release I know worked (FC10), and grabbed, the FC10, FC11, FC12 and FC13 src.rpm files. I built static versions of each and discovered that the problem occurred between FC11 (netpbm-10.35.62) and FC12 (netpbm-10.47.04), which is not surprising considering the quantity of changes between those two releases. My work-around is there to use the fc11 version (calling it something else). Since it is statically built (at least for netpbm), my new (old) version won't interfere with anything else on the system. I believe the bug was introduced in lib/libppmd.c. The diff between the 10.35.62 and the 10.47.04 version of that file is 1414 lines long! Most of the changes have to do with variable name changes (e.g. "cx0 became c0.x, which is to say that the concept of "c0" became a struct rather than just a bunch of variables.) In any case, someone with the ability to build all of the interim versions and test each one will probably be able to narrow it down to a smaller number of changed lines). At least for right now, since I have a work-around, I should be working on other things, but I'm happy to help time permitting. Diff between 10.35.62 and 10.47.04 versions of lib/libppmd.c attached.
Created attachment 448160 [details] Diffs between 10.35.62 (FC11) and 10.47.04 (FC12) of lib/libppmd.c
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This is still a problem with FC13. It basically makes the ppmlabel command useless and large parts of the ppmdraw command are also useless. I am surprised there isn't some kind of regression test against this package!
It works for me with netpbm-10.47.17 on F14 so it seems the problem is only in the old netpbm-10.47.13 in F13. I will release updates to address this soon. Thanks for the feedback!
netpbm-10.47.21-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/netpbm-10.47.21-1.fc13
netpbm-10.47.21-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update netpbm'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/netpbm-10.47.21-1.fc13
netpbm-10.47.21-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.