[20146] in Athena Bugs
Re: gs hangs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Fri Feb 1 22:27:06 2002
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:27:02 EST
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: <lcs@MIT.EDU>
To: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, <bugs@MIT.EDU>, <kenclary@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:30:33 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.1012620422.lcs@defiant.mit.edu>
> The problem appears to be intermittent, actually. At the moment for me,
> both the dd command and ps2pdf are working; for Ken they worked for a
> bit after you sent the mail, but now they're no longer working. (he's on
> a dialup, so no turning things off and on as root). But that suggests
> it's /dev/random in fact.
I've installed a new version of gs which does not use /dev/random on
Solaris, since it seems to have some problems (especially on the
dialups if it can't keep up with the demand for entropy (it's not as
weird as it sounds!)).
Since gs 7.03 fixes a problem that affected latex, if this fix proves
satisfactory I'd like to keep the new version.
-- Larry
