Re: [Dvipng] DVIPNG segfault on DVI output of simple TEX file?

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

There isn't much traffic these days, I dont have much time to put either.

The below works for me (linux mint) so either there is a build problem 
or something to do with your setup.

In any case, it is a standard image, so if that doesn't work, then 
nothing will. I would have many bug reports if everyone sees this.

Have you tried adding -d?

Perhaps it needs a newer kpathsea, but doesn't say so in the dependencies?

Best,
/JÅ


On 2013-06-17 07:10, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hello. The last post on this list was from last year but I hope people
> are still around:
>
> I'm running Kubuntu Raring, with versions as below:
> texlive-base: 2012.20120611-5
> dvipng: 1.14-1build1
>
> I have this simple document foo.tex:
>
> \documentclass[16pt]{article}
> \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
> \usepackage{breqn}
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \begin{document}
> $ \infty $
> \end{document}
>
> I do latex foo.tex and I get the .dvi files with no problems. Then I do:
>
> dvipng -T tight -D 150 -bg Transparent -fg Blue -O 0cm,0cm foo.png foo.dvi
>
> I get this:
>
> This is dvipng 1.14 Copyright 2002-2010 Jan-Ake Larsson
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> gdb says there are no debugging symbols so I couldn't try that.
>
> Due to this dvipng problem I am not able to use SymPyPrt on
> IPython2/3: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sympy/WzwS3578TuU/sZAYDcFQ8cIJ
>
> I did not have a problem with using SymPyPrt on Kubuntu Precise of
> last year, and dvipng has practically not changed in Raring since
> Precise: 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=dvipng&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
> except for a new build. The changelog
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/d/dvipng/dvipng_1.14-1build1/changelog
> says it's for some kpathsea transition but I'm not sure whether that
> would be the cause of the problem.
>
> I hope Jan or someone else can help me. Thank you!