Re: Apsfilter-5.4.2 - Installation problem

[Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:55:49PM +0000, robin@cosby.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> In message <3321@cosby.demon.co.uk> robin@cosby.demon.co.uk (robin@cosby.demon.co.uk) writes:
> On 11th & 16th May, robin cosby (robin@cosby.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > 
> 
> > I'll be grateful for any help that you can give me in resolving the
> > following installation problem.  It's something that I've never
> > encountered before when using other versions of apsfilter with the
> > same printer and the same setup criteria.
> > 
> > Many thanks in advance!
> > 
> > -- 
> > Robin Cosby
> > 
> >                         ********** BUG-REPORT **********
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > (1) Some simple questions:
> > 
> > 	Operating System  : Linux SuSE-6.3, kernel 2.2.14 
> > 	apsfilter Rel.    : apsfilter-5.4.2
> > 	ghostscript Rel.  : gs 6.01 
> > 	Printer           : HP 520 DeskJet 
> > 	serial/parallel   : parallel printer
> > 	Mono/Color        : Mono printer
> > 	Postscript-Printer: no
> > 	Print Resolution  : gs driver default ?
> > 	or                : GS_RESOL set by apsfilterrc file ?
> > 	or                : set by filterscript name ?
> >                             x600 x y300
> > 	Your Full Name    : Robin Cosby 
> > 	Your e-mail addr  : robin@cosby.demon.co.uk 
> > 
> > (2) - Problem description
> > 
> > a) When attempting to print the Test Page, my monitor screen fills with
> >    a continuous loop of the following messages:
> > 
> >    Unexecutable error: execstackoverflow in Unrecoverable error: 
> >    typecheck in Unrecoverable error: .... and so on.
> > 
> > b) If I bypass the test page printing process and continue to (C), to
> > eomplete the installation process, my printer does not react to a
> > print command, e.g. lpr -Praw /opt/apsfilter/README.
> > 
> >
>  
> Hello Andreas and Vela,
> 
> This is just to let you know that I've traced the cause of this problem
> to a defective installation of ghostscript-6.01.  As part of this, I
> had downloaded libpng-1.0.6 (the latest version), but have since
> discovered that the ghostscript makefile (linux-gcc.mak) only works with 
> versions up to and including libpng-1.0.5.
> 
> I therefore replaced version 1.0.6 with version 1.0.5.  Ghostscript then
> compiled and installed correctly and apsfilter-5.4.2 now works perfectly.

That's good news. One should put this into a FAQ section or perhaps
README.SuSE.

	Andreas ///

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