Issue with Hylafax

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Chris Roubekas <croubekas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Recently I ran an apt-get upgrade on my Ubuntu Server 8.10 which has
> hylafax-server running. Apparently Ubuntu had an update for libtiff which
> was updated to version 4. However, this update caused my hylafax received
> faxes not to be operable. In specific, hylafax now receives a fax and places
> it in recvq. The file in this folder is perfectly fine. I have however added
> the functionality to send all received faxes via e-mail as an attachment (in
> pdf) which used to work perfectly fine before the libtiff upgrade. Now the
> pdf's that are sent as attachments are not readable.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get that functionality back??

I'd

1 - file a bug
2 - find out why they updated libtiff (e.g. bug fix? security issue?)
3 - reinstall the older version of libtiff assuming 1 isn't fixed and
2 isn't a big issue and pin it there.

Brian