[tex-live] segfault in pdflatex

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 28 Jan 2010, Barret Rhoden wrote:
> pdflatex segfaults in libc when including graphics in specific
> circumstances in texlive-2009.  It is location-specific (certain
> location in the file - seems like when its near the top of a page).

Whcih distribution do you use?

Please report a bug there, that is NOT (!!!!) a TeX Live problem.

This is a consequence in linking the binaries with libpoppler
instead of the included xpdf lib.

That is, as seen in the backtrace, a bug in libpoppler and has nothing
to do with TeX Live.

Thanks.

> #1  0xb7e688c3 in GlobalParams::scanEncodingDirs() ()
> from /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 
> #2  0xb7e699cf in GlobalParams::GlobalParams(char const*) ()
> from /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.5 


Best wishes

Norbert
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