gs does not terminate and does not produce output when writing with pdfwrite

[Nico Orrù]

The following command never terminates, one CPU/thread up 100%:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf -f test.ps

This is more or less what

ps2pdf test.ps

does.

I have obtained this test case from an old debian bug report at the URL below, as I have originally encountered the problem with a *much larger* postscript file (214MB), which I've left running for 24 hours with no progress. I have attached both files.

Both files (the small one and the large one) get read by gv and displayed perfectly on screen.

Terminating the process with ctrl+c, output file is generated but contains no data.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786827

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: ghostscript 9.19~dfsg+1-0ubuntu6.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-32.34-lowlatency 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-32-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Tue Jan 3 20:48:44 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-20 (74 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
SourcePackage: ghostscript
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Nico Orrù (nigu-orru)]

Small file

[Nico Orrù (nigu-orru)]

Large file (bunzip to manual.ps to reproduce)

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Reported to Ghostscript upstream:

https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697462

[dino99 (9d9)]

Fixed upstream (697462#1)

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is an unsupported release now. Please think to install the next LTS 'Bionic 18.04'

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-next/daily-live/current/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-18-04-minimal-install-option