I have a RH 6.0 box – it’s a 486-SX (no FPU) at 33MHz with 32MB RAM – where any invocation of ghostscript (version 5.10) to convert PS to another format aborts with a segmentation fault. Also, I tried some older versions (3.x and 4.x) and the last one (6.x) with the same results…
The same hard disk tried in a Pentium 75 box (with 24MB RAM) boots linux fine and runs any ghostscript job with no problem at all!!
Does anyone know about a requirement of ghostscript for processing power? Is it the lack of FPU hardware? By the way, the kernel (2.2.5) is compiled for 486 and floating point emulation enabled.
Sooner or later I will upgrade the machine, but no $$$ yet. I’d appreciate any answer that drives me in the right direction solving this problem that hinders the printing of non-text data, as ghostscript is the central piece in the print subsystem of RedHat Linux.
Thanks in advance…