[CentOS] Re: ghostscript update breaks evince

Thu Jan 5 04:05:07 UTC 2017
Yamaban <foerster at lisas.de>

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 03:40, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 01/04/2017 04:49 PM, David C. Miller wrote:
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> >  From: "Robert Nichols" 
>> >  To: centos at centos.org
>> >  Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 12:21:48 PM
>> >  Subject: [CentOS] ghostscript update breaks evince
>> 
>> >  Today's ghostscript.x86_64 0:8.70-21.el6_8.1 update causes evince to 
>> >  refuse to
>> >  display any postscript file. Running evince from a terminal session, I 
>> >  see the
>> >  errors:
>> > 
>> >  invalidaccess -7
>> >  invalidaccess -7
>> >  invalidaccess -7
>> > 
>> >  ** (evince:1252): WARNING **: Error rendering thumbnail
>> > 
>> >  Downgrading to ghostscript.x86_64 0:8.70-21.el6 corrects the problem.
>> > 
>> >  Anyone else seeing this?

Other Distros (e.g. SUSE) had the same problem.

In most cases it was caused by a "fix" in the file:

{usr/share/ghostscript_version}/Init/gs_init.ps

in the "/.locksafe {" segment, a ".forceput" was misplaced.

If you compare this file between the two ghostscript versions,
it should become visible.


  - Yamaban