[tex-live] pdflatex core dump

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:21PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     >  pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file ./figure_fsteps.pdf): PDF
>     >  inclusion: multiple pdfs with page group included in a single page
> 
> 1) Please send the ./figure_fsteps.pdf that causes the crash. Trying to
> build gnuplot doc to reproduce is not appealing. Certainly be good to
> have on hand in any case.

See attachment for figure_fsteps.pdf ... could be that this is only one
of a set of pdf figures which caused the crash in libpoppler due maybe
wrong (memory) management of the huge numbers of pdf figures used by
the final gnuplot documentation.

> 
> 2) Is this with the sources currently in TL, or (modified) suse sources?
> As Akira and Norbert said, both new poppler and new xpdf(v4) have
> problems of various indeterminate kinds, due to intentional introduced
> incompatibilities.

Indeed with poppler 0.57.0 aka libpoppler.so.68.0.0 only the warnings
about 

``multiple pdfs with page group included in a single page''

occur but no crash.  The final gnuplot.pdf looks perfect even with
multiple figures included :)

Even with intentional introduced incompatibilities, a crash is simply
a bug

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