Re: [hylafax-users] Problem while converting documents

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

At 06:59 PM 10/18/00 +0200, Christoph Andreas wrote:
>I'm running the binary distribution of HylaFAX v4.1beta2 under SuSE
>Linux 6.4 with gcc 2.95.2 and libtiff 3.5.4-83.

Which binary?  There have been a few.  I would recommend reading:
http://www.hylafax.org/howto/install.html#ss2.3
and using the binary that is listed there.

> When I try to fax a
>document which needs to be converted (f.i. Postscript-file or
>tiff-file), the faxq-process establishes a child-process which converts
>the first page and then hangs (it also hangs after converting if I want
>to convert only one page). The system runs further and I may send
>further faxes, but the child-faxq-process finishes only, when killtime
>expired.
>The appropriate (last) line in /var/log/messages looks like this:
>...FaxQueuer [####]: Job ## (.....): CONVERT DOCUMENT: bin/ps2fax ....

Seems to be the notorious HylaFAX/libtiff incompatibility.  The newer
binary that is quoted above in the HOWTO fixes this.

Lee.

>If I run ps2fax from the commandline, everything works fine [except that
>I may not use ';' in filenames, cause these are misinterpreted by the
>shell].
>If I try to fax a document which doesn't need conversion, everything
>works fine, too.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help
>Christoph.

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