RHBA-2007:1042 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated ghostscript packages that fix several bugs are now available.

Description

Ghostscript is a program for displaying PostScript files, or printing them
to non-PostScript printers.

These updated packages fix the following bugs:

• man pages for commands that are not included in the ghostscript packages

have been removed.

• the pxlmono driver for PCL/XL printers could cause some print jobs to

fail due to an incorrect data type. Instead of printing the requested
document, the following error is printed:

PCL XL error
Subsystem: KERNEL
Error: IllegalAttributeDataType
Operator: SetLineDash
Offset: NNNNNN

(Where "NNNNNN" is a random number).

All ghostscript users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)