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["Karl M. Hegbloom" <address@hidden>]

On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:26, David Allouche wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 01:08:48PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 13:05, address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > > This is strange. It seems (according to apt-file) that the texmacs deb
> > > just puts fig2ps in usr/bin/fig2ps. So there should be not PATH problem.
> > 
> > I would like to try it again, but have found that TeXmacs will no longer
> > allow me to embed any kind of image in a document.  When I go to select
> > a file to embed, it just sits there, with the dialog box still open, and
> > won't refresh it's windows or anything.  It does not even spin the CPU.
> 
> You have probably just upgraded GhostScript.
> 
> There is a known (and critical) problem with gs-8 which was reported
> first by Fink users. The only known workaround at the moment is to
> send a SIGINT to GhostScript (i.e. press Ctrl-C in the terminal in
> which you started texmacs). Things will then proceed normally.
> 
> I suspect we are having a deadlock situation related to the X protocol
> and the fact that texmacs runs gs synchronously (used the "system"
> call). That is just a speculation at the moment, but that is backed by
> the fact that M. Costabel reported that gs was stuck in "select",
> which is typical of deadlock situations.
> 
> 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.