| Summary: | kdvi generate File corruption erroe message and does not show correct dvi image | ||
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| Product: | kdvi | Reporter: | kiheonyun |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Stefan Kebekus <kebekus> |
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | drago, rdieter, stefan.hoelldampf |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: |
DVI exhibiting the problem
2116904.dvi |
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Description
kiheonyun
2005-06-20 17:26:19 UTC
The same problem occurs with "old" DVI files created on Fedora Core 3 (tetex-2.0.2-21.3), too. *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** This behavior does not depend on the origin of the DVI file. The message is produced when the first few pages of the document are viewed. Hi, thank you for your bug reports. I believe that this issue could be the same as bug #107065, but I am not certain yet. Unfortunately, I have not been able to reproduce the issue on any of my machines, and I start to suspect that this could really be a problem with the compilers that RedHat Fedora use. To help me track down the issue, could you please try to shorten the DVI file so that is no more than one page, at best no more than a few words, and send me the file. Best, Stefan. Created attachment 11578 [details]
DVI exhibiting the problem
Every DVI I've tried, no matter how short, generates the error. Some of them
also place stray characters on the page. I've attached a short DVI that gives
the error and displays an extraneous infinity sign on Fedora Core 4.
Hi, Thank you very much. As a matter of fact, the compiler which Fedora Core 4 uses is blacklisted by KDE, but so far the only bug I noticed was this one (the reason might be due to the fact that I am using TeX quite a lot). I am attaching a short DVI file produced on the Fedora Core 4 machine in question. The effect, however, is more complicated than I thought: the error never appears further than the 2nd or 3rd page, but strange symbols can appear anywhere in the document. Best, Jacob Created an attachment (id=11580) 2116904.dvi Hi, thank you for your bug report. The issue that you have reported is really a bug in the C++ compiler that RedHat uses for Fedore Core 4. The compiler is known to have issues, and is explicitly blacklisted as unsuitable to compile KDE. I have added a workaround for this particular bug to the KDVI source files, and KDVI seems to run fine now. The workaround will be contained in the upcoming KDE 3.4.2 release. It must be expected, however, that the buggy compile will cause more problems, at other places. Thus, I would strongly urge you to complain to the makers of Fedore about the issue. Best, Stefan. Was the workaround for this "File corruption" bug also applied to trunk? I am seeing the same error with the Kubuntu 'Breezy' toolchain. I've removed the packaged kdvi so I'm pretty sure I'm using the version in trunk. Or was the workaround not part of kdvi, but elsewhere? Thanks *** Bug 109129 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |