Re: ghostscript fails on pdf generation

[David Wright]

On Sat 11 Feb 2017 at 20:36:33 (+0100), N. Andrew Walsh wrote:
> I realize this isn't strictly an issue with Lily, but pdf output recently
> started failing. I see the following message in the console output:
> 
> Layout output to `/tmp/lilypond-CFV9h3'...
> Converting to `Reinhold Urmetzer - Lamento di Achille.pdf'...
> warning: `(gs -q -dSAFER -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595.28
> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841.89 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH
> -r1200 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=Reinhold Urmetzer - Lamento di
> Achille.pdf -c.setpdfwrite -f/tmp/lilypond-CFV9h3)' failed (256)
> 
> 'gs' is the ghostscript binary, but I haven't updated that recently, nor
> any of its dependencies (the closest I could find in recent updates was
> "podofo", which seems only marginally related to pdf generation).
> 
> Is there a way to check what the exact error might be here? I suspect a
> recent package update somewhere changed a shared library and I'll need to
> recompile something, but I'm not sure what. Any suggestions?

I can't see any difference between that error message and the one
referred to in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-06/msg00087.html
which I could duplicate myself as shown in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-06/msg00123.html
where I avoid using the wrapper script that sets $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

IOW you can get this by mixing versions of the various parts of the
LP system.

Cheers,
David.