Failure to run image magic in the latest release

Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Andy Rushton]

Hi all,

I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.

After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
was because of a missing dll, specifically
/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.

A bit more digging and I found that these DLLs used to be part of
package xorg-x11-bin-dlls but has been removed with the latest release -
6.8.99.901-1.

I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the
previous version of this package (xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0) and
hand-installing them.

So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?

Andy Rushton


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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>
>After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>was because of a missing dll, specifically
>/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>
>A bit more digging and I found that these DLLs used to be part of
>package xorg-x11-bin-dlls but has been removed with the latest release -
>6.8.99.901-1.
>
>I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the
>previous version of this package (xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0) and
>hand-installing them.
>
>So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?

Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
list.

cgf

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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Mark Hadfield]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>>
>> After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>> stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>> that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>> was because of a missing dll, specifically
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>>
 >> ...
>>
>> So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>> x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?
> 
> Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
> list.

I for one am very glad it has been mentioned on the Cygwin list, as I 
had noticed similar behaviour but not bothered to establish the cause. 
And I would never have thought it was an X-related problem as convert is 
a non-graphical program.

I think it affects GraphicsMagick also.


-- 
Mark Hadfield          "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)











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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:27:37PM +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>>>
>>>After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>>>stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>>>that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>>>was because of a missing dll, specifically
>>>/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>>>/usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>>>x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?
>>
>>Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
>>list.
>
>I for one am very glad it has been mentioned on the Cygwin list, as I 
>had noticed similar behaviour but not bothered to establish the cause. 
>And I would never have thought it was an X-related problem as convert is 
>a non-graphical program.

So maybe you should be reading the cygwin-xfree mailing list then.

>I think it affects GraphicsMagick also.

It is, without a doubt, a cygwin/x issue.  So please no more whining here.

cgf

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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Andy Rushton]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:27:37PM +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>   
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>>>>
>>>> After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>>>> stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>>>> that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>>>> was because of a missing dll, specifically
>>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>>>> x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?
>>>>         
>>> Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
>>> list.
>>>       
>> I for one am very glad it has been mentioned on the Cygwin list, as I 
>> had noticed similar behaviour but not bothered to establish the cause. 
>> And I would never have thought it was an X-related problem as convert is 
>> a non-graphical program.
>>     
>
> So maybe you should be reading the cygwin-xfree mailing list then.
>
>   
>> I think it affects GraphicsMagick also.
>>     
>
> It is, without a doubt, a cygwin/x issue.  So please no more whining here.
>   
Who's whining? I just posted a work-around to a Cygwin-related problem. 
In case you're unaware, this is not an X-Windows tool, it is a 
command-line tool so this is the natural mailing list for discussing it. 
The fact that it uses some functionality from X libraries doesn't change 
it's command-line nature

As I see it, it's not for me to say where the problem is. It could be 
that ImageMagick does not need to have a dependency on this DLL, in 
which case it is a problem for the maintainer of ImageMagick. Of course 
it could be that the X people have inadvertently missed out the DLL from 
the latest release, in which case it would *then* be an XFree problem. 
How am I to know which package is the faulty one? .

Posting this report here with a work-around that fixes it gives those 
who use ImageMagick an insight into the problem as the response from 
Mark shows. If the post was useful, it was relevant.

Andy

-- 
Andy Rushton, Southampton, UK

Information is the inverse of entropy.


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Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Angelo Graziosi]

Andy Rushton wrote:

> Posting this report here with a work-around that fixes it gives those
> who use ImageMagick an insight into the problem as the response from
> Mark shows. If the post was useful, it was relevant.


Thanks a lots Andy for the work-around.

I posted (to the x-cygwin list) the problem some time ago, when I using
the xorg-x11-6.8.99.901-1 package as test. The only workaround I found was
to use netpbm instead.


Cheers,

   Angelo.


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