[tex-k] dvips segfault

[Norbert Preining]

Hi everyone,

at Debian we got a bug report about segfaulting dvips when reading
and writing to itself .. (yes I know it is not very intelligent,
but still segfaulting is not optimal):

$ latex `kpsewhich sample2e.tex`
...
$ dvips -osample2e.dvi sample2e.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.992 Copyright 2012 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2013.03.18:0800' -> sample2e.dvi
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf/dvips/base/texps.pro>. 
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr8.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr6.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy7.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi7.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmmi10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmti10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmsy10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr7.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb>
</home/norbert/tl/2012/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr17.pfb>
[1887007337Segmentation fault


This is with current TeX Live 2012 (but the same in old versions and
Debian versions).

Maybe that can be handled sooner or later, but no hurry I guess.

Thanks

Norbert

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