xdvi stops showing emedded figures after updating ghostscript

[Peter Olsson]

I like to report a problem with using xdvi after upgrading ghostscript (and libgs9) in Trusty Tahr from version 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.12 to version 9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13.

The error message after invoking xdvi looks as below.

$ xdvi scaling.dvi
gs: Error: /undefined in flushpage
gs: Operand stack:
gs:
gs: Execution stack:
gs: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
gs: 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- fals
gs: e 1 %stopped_push 1916 1 3 %oparray_pop 1915 1 3 %oparray_pop
gs: 1899 1 3 %oparray_pop 1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
gs: %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval--
gs: 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %loop_continue --nost
gs: ringval--
gs: Dictionary stack:
gs: --dict:957/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:81/200(L)--
gs: Current allocation mode is local
gs: Last OS error: No such file or directory
gs: GPL Ghostscript 9.10: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
xdvi.bin: Warning: Read_from_gs returned 0 bytes

For the (unlikely) possibility that this error could be due to the update of some other package I also include the full list of the packages that were installed at the same time.

Setting up libglib2.0-data (2.40.2-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.40.2-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libglib2.0-bin (2.40.2-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libglib2.0-dev (2.40.2-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up liblcms2-2:amd64 (2.5-0ubuntu4.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-core2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-flann2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-imgproc2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-features2d2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-calib3d2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-highgui2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-ml2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-video2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-legacy2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-objdetect2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libopencv-contrib2.4:amd64 (2.4.8+dfsg1-2ubuntu1.2) ...
Setting up libisc95 (1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18) ...
Setting up libdns100 (1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18) ...
Setting up libisccc90 (1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18) ...
Setting up libisccfg90 (1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18) ...
Setting up libbind9-90 (1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18) ...
Setting up liblwres90 (1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18) ...
Setting up bind9-host (1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18) ...
Setting up dnsutils (1:9.9.5.dfsg-3ubuntu0.18) ...
Setting up libgs9-common (9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13) ...
Setting up libgs9 (9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13) ...
Setting up ghostscript (9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13) ...
Setting up ghostscript-x (9.10~dfsg-0ubuntu10.13) ...

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for reporting this issue. It looks like upstream reverted a change in later releases.

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=19ebb5f1f497b6f2d50fe13d17d3e627dfb6c868

I'll prepare a regression fix soon.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Hi! Any chance you could send me the problematic dvi file?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

I have released ghostscript 9.25 to all stable releases. That should fix this issue. Thanks!