- From: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: Freeze when loading an image (was: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?)
- Date: 27 Apr 2003 13:19:47 -0700
- Organization:
On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:26, David Allouche wrote:
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:08:48PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
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> On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:05, address@hidden wrote:
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> > This is strange. It seems (according to apt-file) that the texmacs deb
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> > just puts fig2ps in usr/bin/fig2ps. So there should be not PATH problem.
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> I would like to try it again, but have found that TeXmacs will no longer
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> allow me to embed any kind of image in a document. When I go to select
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> a file to embed, it just sits there, with the dialog box still open, and
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> won't refresh it's windows or anything. It does not even spin the CPU.
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You have probably just upgraded GhostScript.
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There is a known (and critical) problem with gs-8 which was reported
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first by Fink users. The only known workaround at the moment is to
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send a SIGINT to GhostScript (i.e. press Ctrl-C in the terminal in
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which you started texmacs). Things will then proceed normally.
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I suspect we are having a deadlock situation related to the X protocol
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and the fact that texmacs runs gs synchronously (used the "system"
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call). That is just a speculation at the moment, but that is backed by
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the fact that M. Costabel reported that gs was stuck in "select",
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which is typical of deadlock situations.
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Try downgrading GhostScript for the moment.
What I discovered is that GNU gs in Debian "sid" does NOT work, but that
aladdin-gs and gs-esp both work fine.
- Re: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?, (continued)
- Re: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?, Karl M. Hegbloom, 04/16/2003
- Re: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?, david, 04/20/2003
- Re: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?, Karl M. Hegbloom, 04/20/2003
- Freeze when loading an image (was: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?), david, 04/20/2003
- Re: Freeze when loading an image (was: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?), Michèle Garoche, 04/21/2003
- Re: Freeze when loading an image (was: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?), Karl M. Hegbloom, 04/21/2003
- Re: Freeze when loading an image, david, 04/21/2003
- Re: Freeze when loading an image, Michèle Garoche, 04/21/2003
- Re: Freeze when loading an image, Ralf Treinen, 04/21/2003
- Re: Freeze when loading an image (was: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?), Karl M. Hegbloom, 04/21/2003
- Re: Freeze when loading an image (was: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?), Karl M. Hegbloom, 04/27/2003
- Re: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?, Michèle Garoche, 04/21/2003
- Re: How to insert a Latex formula in a xfig picture?, Ralf Treinen, 04/21/2003
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