Some PDF files may not print in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6
Issue
- Some PDFs do not print, using CUPS. A different report from the same system prints fine, however.
- While printing, the messages like the following appear in
/var/log/cups/error_log:
D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/gs: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000011b496a0 *** D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] ======= Backtrace: ========= D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /lib64/libc.so.6[0x329a0730fe] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x6e)[0x329a074e2e] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /lib64/libc.so.6(__strdup+0x22)[0x329a0798c2] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/lib64/libgs.so.8(cups_put_params+0x618)[0x2ae619066bb8] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/lib64/libgs.so.8(gs_putdeviceparams+0x42)[0x2ae61907e232] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/lib64/libgs.so.8[0x2ae618e9418e] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/lib64/libgs.so.8(gs_interpret+0x157f)[0x2ae618e67d3f] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/lib64/libgs.so.8(gs_main_run_string_end+0x2e)[0x2ae618e5d6ee] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/lib64/libgs.so.8[0x2ae618e5e6f0] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/lib64/libgs.so.8[0x2ae618e5f5f3] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/lib64/libgs.so.8(gs_main_init_with_args+0x321)[0x2ae618e60741] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/bin/gs(main+0x91)[0x400a01] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x329a01d994] D [11/Oct/2011:23:51:00 +0000] [Job 154] /usr/bin/gs[0x4008b9]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and 6.1
- ghostscript-8.70-6.el5
- ghostscript-8.70-11.el6
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