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gs-common package

gs uses gs-esp after dist-upgrade to feisty: hight HD load

Bug #112116 reported by Timmie
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gs-common

In Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Nautilus has a preview for EPS-figures.

Nautilus and many other programs such as Evince, Lyx, etc. use gs to convert these figures.

After the dist-upgrade gs results in a very high hard disk use/load that it effectily blocks the hard disk and any other system activity. The user has no other option than reboot.

A workaround is:

1) start galternatives
2) select gs in the right pane
3) choose gs-gpl instead of gs-esp as a default
=> now it works well.

I mark this as a security issue since I had do a forced reboot via text terminal to access my computer again due to the high hard disk load cause by the misconfiguration.
Note that in edgy eft all worked well!

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing privilege boundaries to be crossed nor directly leading to data/privacy loss. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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Timmie (timmie) wrote :

I think I reported a dublicate of
[GPL GS WORKS] evince (gs-esp) memory leak opening .eps files
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gs-esp/+bug/75894

You may mark it as such.

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