pdf documents are broken

[psl]

Binary package hint: lifelines-doc

lifelines-doc 3.0.50-1

pdf documents are broken, I cannot open them. See details:

psl@arch:~$ xpdf ll-reportmanual.pdf
Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Error: Couldn't read xref table
Warning: Attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab

psl@arch:~$ xpdf ll-userguide.pdf
Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
Error: Couldn't read xref table
Warning: Attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab
psl@arch:~$

psl@arch:~$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/lifelines-doc/
total 756
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2606 2006-01-19 06:37 buildinfo.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4797 2006-01-19 06:36 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92222 2005-12-23 19:42 changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1940 2006-01-19 06:36 copyright
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224 2006-01-19 06:36 ll-index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162439 2005-12-23 19:41 ll-reportmanual.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60286 2005-12-23 19:40 ll-reportmanual.pdf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24761 2005-12-23 19:41 ll-reportmanual.txt.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29021 2005-12-23 19:34 ll-reportmanual.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167951 2005-12-23 19:40 ll-userguide.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101385 2005-12-23 19:40 ll-userguide.pdf.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35279 2005-12-23 19:40 ll-userguide.txt.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38509 2005-12-23 19:34 ll-userguide.xml.gz

[psl (slansky)]

psl@arch:~$ file *pdf
ll-reportmanual.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4
ll-userguide.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Thanks for the report. Do you still have this problem?

[psl (slansky)]

I retested with Ubuntu 6.06.1 (sorry, I don't have newer Ubuntu installed now) and I still can see the problem.

Steps to retest:

$ sudo apt-get install lifelines-doc
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/lifelines-doc/ll-reportmanual.pdf.gz > ll-reportmanual.pdf
$ file ll-reportmanual.pdf
$ evince ll-reportmanual.pdf

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

Thanks for the reply. I can confirm that this is a problem in Feisty, lifelines 3.0.50-2.

[Phil Bull (philbull)]

I reported this upstream too:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418347

[Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount)]

Fixed: This was fixed in 3.0.50-2etch1, ubuntu now has 3.0.61-1.