[Bug-AUCTeX] 11.86; total failure

[Sam Boosalis]

To:  address@hidden
Subject: 11.86; total failure
From: Sam Boosalis <address@hidden>

all i do is invoke 'generate previews' on the following:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[active]{preview}
\begin{document}
solve $\sqrt{x} = 5$,  $x=25$.
\end{document}

that's it, and i get the following ghostscript dump:

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gs -dOutputFile\=\(_region_.prv/tmp18542Aas/pr1-25.png\) -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -DNOPLATFONTS -dPrinted -sDEVICE\=png16m -r110.557x110.613
GS>{DELAYSAFER{.setsafe}if}stopped pop/.preview-BP currentpagedevice/BeginPage get dup null eq{pop{pop}bind}if def<</BeginPage{currentpagedevice/PageSize get dup 0 get 1 ne exch 1 get 1 ne or{.preview-BP gsave 0.996109 0.996109 0.996109 setrgbcolor clippath fill grestore }{pop}ifelse}bind/PageSize[1 1]>>setpagedevice/preview-do{[count 3 roll save]3 1 roll dup length 0 eq{pop}{setpagedevice}{ifelse .runandhide}stopped{handleerror quit}if aload pop restore}bind def [(_region_.prv/tmp18542Aas/preview.ps)(r)file]aload exch dup 0 setfileposition 330211()/SubFileDecode filter cvx .runandhide aload pop dup dup 331101 setfileposition 253()/SubFileDecode filter cvx<<>>preview-do

Error: /typecheck in --setfileposition--

Operand stack:
   --nostringval--   (_region_.prv/tmp18542Aas/preview.ps)   (r)   (r)   (r)   364663   364663   364663   363713   363713   363713   363262   363262   363262   363146   363146   363146   363044   363044   363044   362942   362942   362942   362840   362840   362840   362733   362733   362733   362594   362594   362594   362473   362473   362473   362324   362324   362324   362170   362170   362170   361608   361608   361608   361454   361454   361454   361020   361020   361020   360881   360881   360881   360754   360754   360754   360600   360600   360600   360452   360452   360452   330211   330211   330211   352820   352820   352820   351318   351318   351318   350327   350327   350327   331101

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   %loop_continue   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--

Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1155/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:79/200(L)--

Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 31
GS<75>
==============================================

the guys at gs tell me the "preview.ps" file passed to gs may be malformed input.

thanks

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Emacs  : GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.35)
 of 2011-03-09 on black.porkrind.org
Package: 11.86

current state:
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(setq

 AUCTeX-version "11.86"
 LaTeX-command-style '(("" "%(PDF)%(latex) %S%(PDFout)"))
 image-types '(png gif tiff jpeg xpm xbm pbm)
 preview-image-type 'png
 preview-image-creators '((dvipng

               (open preview-gs-open preview-dvipng-process-setup)
               (place preview-gs-place)
               (close preview-dvipng-close))
              (png (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)

               (close preview-gs-close))
              (jpeg (open preview-gs-open)
               (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
              (pnm (open preview-gs-open) (place preview-gs-place)

               (close preview-gs-close))
              (tiff (open preview-gs-open)
               (place preview-gs-place) (close preview-gs-close))
              )
 preview-dvipng-image-type 'png
 preview-dvipng-command "dvipng -picky -noghostscript %d -o \"%m/prev%%03d.png\""

 preview-pdf2dsc-command "pdf2dsc %s.pdf %m/preview.dsc"
 preview-gs-command "gs"
 preview-gs-options '("-q" "-dSAFER" "-dNOPAUSE" "-DNOPLATFONTS" "-dPrinted")

 preview-gs-image-type-alist '((png png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
                   (dvipng png "-sDEVICE=png16m")
                   (jpeg jpeg "-sDEVICE=jpeg")
                   (pnm pbm "-sDEVICE=pnmraw")

                   (tiff tiff "-sDEVICE=tiff12nc"))
 preview-fast-conversion t
 preview-prefer-TeX-bb nil
 preview-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww -i -E %d -o %m/preview.000"
 preview-fast-dvips-command "dvips -Pwww %d -o %m/preview.ps"

 preview-scale-function 'preview-scale-from-face
 preview-LaTeX-command '("%`%l \"\\nonstopmode\\nofiles\\PassOptionsToPackage{"
             ("," . preview-required-option-list)

             "}{preview}\\AtBeginDocument{\\ifx\\ifPreview\\undefined" preview-default-preamble "\\fi}\"%' %t")
 preview-required-option-list '("active" "tightpage" "auctex"

                (preview-preserve-counters "counters"))
 preview-preserve-counters nil
 preview-default-option-list '("displaymath" "floats" "graphics" "textmath"

                   "sections" "footnotes")
 preview-default-preamble '("\\RequirePackage["
                ("," . preview-default-option-list)
                "]{preview}[2004/11/05]")

 preview-LaTeX-command-replacements nil
 preview-dump-replacements '(preview-LaTeX-command-replacements
                 ("\\`\\([^ ]+\\)\\(\\( +-\\([^ \\\\\"]\\|\\\\\\.\\|\"[^\"]*\"\\)*\\)*\\)\\(.*\\)\\'" "\\1 -ini -interaction=nonstopmode \"&\\1\" " preview-format-name ".ini \\5")

                 )
 preview-undump-replacements '(("\\`\\([^ ]+\\) .*? \"\\\\input\" \\(.*\\)\\'"
                "\\1 -interaction=nonstopmode \"&"
                preview-format-name "\" \\2")

                   )
 preview-auto-cache-preamble 'ask
 preview-TeX-style-dir nil
 )

Output from running `gs -h':