Re: ps2pdf is called wrongly

[Daniel Johnson]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote:

> Hello,
> I just installed lilypond 2.5.11 on my amd64 and it works fine. 
> Thanks! There is one thing that does not work:
> Whenever I call lilypond -f pdf (or use the default as that creates 
> pdf as well) lilypond hangs indefinitly: if I kill it with ctrl-c I get:
>
> Konvertierung nach »CatStevens-FatherAndSon.pdf«...Error invoking 
> `ps2pdf  -sPAPERSIZE="a4" CatStevens-FatherAndSon.ps > /dev/null 2>&1 
> '. Return value 2
>
> I use ghostscript-7.07.1 <the one from aladdin>, and ps2pdf will also 
> hang if I call it like this on the command line.
Have you tried upgrading to ghostscript 8.x?  Newer versions of Lilypond 
are known to have certain problems with the 7.x series.  Unfortunately 
ESP ghostscript is stuck at 7.07, but GPL/Aladdin is up to 8.5 (with 
8.15 being latest stable).