Help with permissions problem

[Elizabeth Williams]

Hello,

I am fairly certain this is permission error because I can run the 
convert command under root without a problem - somehow not an attractive 
idea to run a batch job as root - but I can do it if needed.

Ghostscript which is called by ImageMagick's convert is the problem.   I 
have no idea why there is a permissions problem.   I installed the 
latest version of both ImageMagick (ImageMagick-6.4.1) and Ghostscript 
(ghostscript-8.62) as root - in /usr/local last night and built them 
both from the source code using ./configure, make and make install.

I did the exact same install procedure of the same versions on my Mac 
OSX and I don't have any problem on the Mac running this as a regular 
user (not a superuser or root).  Unfortunately, I don't have the 3.5 TB 
of data set on my Mac nor on my home linux machine which I need to 
produce plots from.   So I need to get this running on my work machine 
if possible.

I have no idea what directory is causing the problem.  Any help would be 
much appreciated.

Thanks.
Liz

--------------------------------------  this works just fine  
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address@hidden bubbles]# *convert -verbose  
bubbles_os150_EX0302E.ps test4.jpg*
"gs" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT 
-dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0 "-sDEVICE=bmpsep8" 
-dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" -g524x615  
"-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-XXRvkPvp" "-f/tmp/magick-XXoG6Sbu" 
"-f/tmp/magick-XXTT6rSy"

--------------------------------------  running as a user (not root) it 
bombs -------------
/data/explorer/Scripts/matlab/adcp/bubbles% *convert -verbose  
bubbles_os150_EX0302E.ps test4.jpg*
Error: /ioerror in --showpage--
Operand stack:
  1   true
Execution stack:
  %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1905   
1   3   %oparray_pop   1904   1   3   %oparray_pop   1888   1   3   
%oparray_pop   1771   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   
%errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   1777   0   3   
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
  --dict:1154/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:71/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 28
Current file position is 7300618
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
convert: "gs" -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dNOPAUSE 
-dAlignToPixels=0 "-sDEVICE=bmpsep8" -dTextAlphaBits=4 
-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-g524x615" "-r72x72"  
"-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-XXk8wYha" "-f/tmp/magick-XXpgtFSb" 
"-fbubbles_os150_EX0302E.ps".
Start of Image
Define Huffman Table 0x00
         0   1   5   1   1   1   1   1
         1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Define Huffman Table 0x01
         0   3   1   1   1   1   1   1
         1   1   1   0   0   0   0   0
Define Huffman Table 0x10
         0   2   1   3   3   2   4   3
         5   5   4   4   0   0   1 125
Define Huffman Table 0x11
         0   2   1   2   4   4   3   4
         7   5   4   4   0   1   2 119
End Of Image
Error: /ioerror in --showpage--
Operand stack:
  1   true
Execution stack:
  %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1905   
1   3   %oparray_pop   1904   1   3   %oparray_pop   1888   1   3   
%oparray_pop   1771   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   
%errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   1777   0   3   
%oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
  --dict:1154/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:71/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 28
Current file position is 7300618
GPL Ghostscript 8.62: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
convert: "gs" -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dNOPAUSE 
-dAlignToPixels=0 "-sDEVICE=bmpsep8" -dTextAlphaBits=4 
-dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-g524x615" "-r72x72"  
"-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-XXk8wYha" "-f/tmp/magick-XXpgtFSb" 
"-fbubbles_os150_EX0302E.ps" -c showpage.
Start of Image
Define Huffman Table 0x00
         0   1   5   1   1   1   1   1
         1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
Define Huffman Table 0x01
         0   3   1   1   1   1   1   1
         1   1   1   0   0   0   0   0
Define Huffman Table 0x10
         0   2   1   3   3   2   4   3
         5   5   4   4   0   0   1 125
Define Huffman Table 0x11
         0   2   1   2   4   4   3   4
         7   5   4   4   0   1   2 119
End Of Image
convert: Postscript delegate failed `bubbles_os150_EX0302E.ps'.
convert: missing an image filename `test4.jpg'.