[hylafax-users] Beta 2 and libtiff problem (assertion failed on incoming fax G3 format)

[Erik_Vanherck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi all, 

I've not been keeping up in the mailing
list and with the latest developments but it seems there have been a lot
of libtiff issues (the warnings return code issue and the 3.6.1 issue).
I think I 've just encountered another one.

I'm working on installing an emergency
replacement fax server (our main server with an older version of hylafax
has some serious hardware faults popping up) on a gentoo linux system but
I'm having problems receiving faxes which are send from a windows machine.
Apparently it encodes it in fax G3 tiff and it causes an assertion to fail
during faxgetty in libtiff. It occurs in libtiff/tif_fax3.c arround line
411 (give or take a few depending on the version of libtiff you are using).


I've tried with libtiff 3.5.7 / 3.6.0
and 3.6.1. Version 3.5.5 does not seem to build correctly on the gentoo
system and there is a serious warning inside the hylafax ebuild about not
using 3.5.5 so I guess that's out. 

It seems the issue does not exist with
hylafax 4.1.8 but I really like to use 4.2.0 beta 2 (or higher) for the
notification with attachment without having to hack all the scripts again
like I had to to with the previous install.

Does anyone know of this problem and
has a workarround for it, or has it been fixed in the latest cvs ?

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