Stuck on most PDF / 1 core at 100% / Printing impossible
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ghostscript (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
I'm under Ubuntu 17.10, dist-upgraded today.
Since a few days ago, I'm almost unable to print. Everytime I try to print a PDF (2x2 pdfnup'ed books), a gs process gets stuck, occupying 100% on 1 of my cores.
Trying to use:
- pdf2ps
- gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=
results in the same problem, with the creation of a ps of size 0.
Using:
- gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=
- pdfnup
- evince
work like a charm on the same pdfs.
Even using 10 pages extracts of the same books results in the exact same problem.
Reinstalling ghostscript package results in the same problem.
Restarting cups daemon does not help either
PDF are copyrighted material (2 ebooks), so I cannot share it publicly, but maybe I can share non-working extracts in private, on demand, for debugging purpose?
FYI:
# dpkg --get-selections | grep filters
cups-filters install
cups-filters-
foomatic-filters deinstall
libcupsfilters1
FYI, the exact command that is looping indefinite loop is: %stdout -dLanguageLevel=3 -r300 -dCompressFonts =false -dNoT3CCITT -dNOINTERPOLATE -c save pop -f /tmp/01ec75a175ac9
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sDEVICE=ps2write -dShowAcroForm -sOUTPUTFILE=