Bug 753249

Summary: FreeType library 2.4.9 causes errors in ghostscript 9.04
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2 Reporter: Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Fridrich Strba <fstrba>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: forgotten_QCVL0e-L35, jsmeix, ohering, postadal, qantas94heavy
Version: Factory   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: openSUSE 12.2   
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Description Dr. Werner Fink 2012-03-21 08:49:34 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 SUSE/3.6.20-1 Firefox/3.6.20

as subject says:

  ../asy -dir ../base -config "" -render=0 -f pdf -noprc parametricgraph.asy
  GPL Ghostscript 9.04: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

a short google search lead me to

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408513#c6

which cites two links for bug fixes in the FreeType library 2.4.9:

  https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?35847
  https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?35833

please add those patches from upstream at let us see if this fix
the problem.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see lines above
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Actual Results:  
GPL Ghostscript 9.04: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1

Expected Results:  
no messsage
Comment 3 Johannes Meixner 2012-03-21 15:10:37 UTC 
A matching Ghostscript upstream bug report
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692940
which mentiones a matching Red Hat bug report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785151
Comment 4 Johannes Meixner 2012-03-21 15:13:57 UTC 
FYI:
For a possible workaround, see
"Regarding tons of Ghostscript Font Renderer Plugin errors"
in
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750679#c11
Comment 5 Johannes Meixner 2012-04-19 12:12:30 UTC 
It seems bnc#748083 is the same issue.
Comment 6 Petr Ostadal 2016-08-16 15:45:13 UTC 
assign to freetype2 bugowner
Comment 7 Karl Cheng 2017-08-11 14:04:43 UTC 
Fixed in openSUSE 12.3 (fixed was included upstream in FreeType 2.4.10).
Comment 8 Karl Cheng 2017-08-12 02:41:23 UTC 
*** Bug 764176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***