GPL Ghostscript 9.04: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

[Daniel Cordeiro]

After upgrading to Ubuntu Oneiric, I'm getting *lots* of lines with this error message from evince when opening ps | eps files:
GPL Ghostscript 9.04: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

Evince is taking a long time to open these ps | eps file. But I can't tell if it gets rendered correctly or not.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: evince 3.1.90.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 10 17:54:09 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-07 (3 days ago)

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

The following apparmor denials were found in the kern.log:
Sep 10 17:41:58 varzea kernel: [21712.385345] type=1400 audit(1315687318.262:427): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=15296 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/local/texlive/bin/i386-linux/mktexpk" pid=15297 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
Sep 10 17:41:58 varzea kernel: [21712.390202] type=1400 audit(1315687318.266:428): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=15296 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/local/texlive/bin/i386-linux/mktexpk" pid=15298 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
Sep 10 17:41:58 varzea kernel: [21712.393863] type=1400 audit(1315687318.270:429): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=15296 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/local/texlive/bin/i386-linux/mkofm" pid=15299 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
Sep 10 17:41:58 varzea kernel: [21712.395712] type=1400 audit(1315687318.270:430): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=15296 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/local/texlive/bin/i386-linux/mktextfm" pid=15300 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
Sep 10 17:41:58 varzea kernel: [21712.398711] type=1400 audit(1315687318.274:431): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=15296 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/local/texlive/bin/i386-linux/mkofm" pid=15301 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
Sep 10 17:41:58 varzea kernel: [21712.400605] type=1400 audit(1315687318.278:432): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=15296 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/local/texlive/bin/i386-linux/mktextfm" pid=15302 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
Sep 10 17:41:58 varzea kernel: [21712.433072] type=1400 audit(1315687318.310:433): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=15296 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/local/texlive/bin/i386-linux/mktexpk" pid=15303 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
Sep 10 17:41:58 varzea kernel: [21712.437811] type=1400 audit(1315687318.314:434): apparmor="DENIED" operation="exec" parent=15296 profile="/usr/bin/evince" name="/usr/local/texlive/bin/i386-linux/mktexpk" pid=15304 comm="evince" requested_mask="x" denied_mask="x" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000

It seems you are using a non-standard texlive. If so, you can update your /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.evince file to contain entries allowing access to these files. You can also put the profile into complain mode until you can refine the profile for your needs using 'sudo aa-complain /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince'. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingAppArmor for details.

[Daniel Cordeiro (dcordeiro)]

After applying the solution used on the other bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/846639/comments/3

i.e, adding the (very permissive) line

/usr/local/texlive/** rux,

to my /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.evince the error messages still appears.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Did you reload the profile with 'sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince'? If so, can you attach you dmesg output?

[Daniel Cordeiro (dcordeiro)]

I also restarted my computer just do be sure.

No new lines are added to the output of dmesg when I try to open a .ps with evince. Still, I get the error message a lot of times in my terminal. I attached the file dmesg.out with the output I get just after logging to the system and trying to open a .ps file with evince.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Thanks Daniel, I think we can rule apparmor out as the problem then.

[Skippy (skippy-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
When I run evince on ps files, I get many times the following error message in the terminal :
GPL Ghostscript 9.04: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

Not sure if and how the display is affected.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince i686 3.2.1 2.fc16
ghostscript i686 9.04 7.fc16
ghostscript-fonts noarch 5.50 27.fc16

Additional info:
Ubuntu seems to be affected by a similar bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/846646

[Skippy (skippy-redhat-bugs)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Not sure if and how the display is affected.

Actually on the files I try to read, only the first page is displayed. I can read them correctly if I process them through ps2pdf, although the following errors appears when viewing the PDF file with evince (not sure it is related, but in case it can help) :
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Entity: line 5: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF 0xFF
<rdf:Description rdf:about='2afbcc86-8354-11ec-0000-4467ff3eb1c�����uuid:2afbcc8
                                                               ^
Entity: line 5: parser error : xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 7
f3eb1c2012-01-30T12:43:25+01:00pA�p*&#9;�EWDTYpAL2012-01-30T12:43:25+01:00WD&#7;
                                                                               ^
Entity: line 6: parser error : xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 7
f3eb1c2012-01-30T12:43:25+01:00pA�p*&#9;�EWDTYpAL2012-01-30T12:43:25+01:00WD&#7;
                                                                               ^
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Tim (tim-redhat-bugs)]

Could you please attach an example document that fails to render?

[Skippy (skippy-redhat-bugs)]

Created attachment 558304
Example PS file

[Tim (tim-redhat-bugs)]

I don't see the message described in comment #0, only this once per page:

(evince:6529): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_from_surface: assertion `width > 0 && height > 0' failed

(evince:6529): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

I also only see the first page, and running gs directly on the PostScript file works fine.

Changing component.

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Not reproducible in Trusty.