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Bug 97583

Summary:	[7.05-20.1] gs gets stuck reading /dev/random
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	ghostscript	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	andreypozdeev, astokes, laroche, tao
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nogin.org/tmp/bug97583.ps
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-081	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2005-09-28 14:20:00 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	156320

Description Aleksey Nogin 2003-06-17 23:33:01 UTC

When running

gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=XXXfile2
-c .setpdfwrite XXXfile1

gs process stays forever in "sleep" mode. Strace shows that process is doing a
read on fd 9 and "ls -l /proc/XXXXX/fd/9" shows

/proc/XXXXX/fd/9 -> /dev/random

Reproducible: always (for a specific file, at least).

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-06-18 08:23:30 UTC

And with -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER?

Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2003-06-18 09:27:00 UTC

> -dSAFER -dPARANOIDSAFER

Same thing. Also, the options I am using are essentially lifted from
/usr/bin/ps2pdfwr (and the ps file is created by dvips).

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2003-06-18 09:49:38 UTC

Please attach the file, or a pointer to it.

Comment 4 Aleksey Nogin 2003-06-18 10:35:20 UTC

I've put the file at http://nogin.org/tmp/bug97583.ps

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2003-06-18 11:27:53 UTC

This comes from src/gdevpdf.c, and was present in 7.05-20 too.  It seems to be
fixed (to use /dev/urandom) in 7.07.

Comment 6 Aleksey Nogin 2003-08-27 00:55:22 UTC

Is there any chance of an errata for this? This is pretty annoying to have
around :-(

Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2003-08-29 12:27:27 UTC

If there is a more pressing need to issue an advisory, I'll see if we can get
this fix in too.

Comment 8 Tim Waugh 2003-11-18 15:31:23 UTC

*** Bug 110326 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Chris Underhill 2005-01-13 17:54:05 UTC

This bug is also seems to be present in WS3 with latest updates, i.e.,
using ghostscript-7.05-32.1.9. It makes a bulk ps2pdf run painfully slow.

Comment 10 Tim Waugh 2005-01-13 22:44:44 UTC

*** Bug 130508 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-09-28 14:20:00 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-081.html