From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: fax2tiff from libtiff 3.5.7 in rh7.3 seg faults when it attempts to convert a (any) fax file created by mgetty. fax2tiff from libtiff-3.5.4-0.5.2 in rh5.2 has no problem converting the same file Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "/usr/bin/fax2tiff [options] faxfile where faxfile is a file created by mgetty and [options] are "-s -M -4" or any other legitimate options. 2. 3. Actual Results: [root@mail root]# /usr/bin/fax2tiff -s -M - 4 /var/spool/fax/incoming/fncd9d0feS2-416-696-6240.01 Segmentation fault [root@mail root]# no fax.tif file was created Expected Results: no seg fault, and fax.tif file should have been created Additional info:
Verified. Puzzeling though. Will look into it. Read ya, Phil
Found the problem and fixed it. libtiff-3.5.7-3 has the fix. Read ya, Phil
Thanks. I picked up the fixed version from rawhide and installed it, and fax2tiff is working for me now.