I then opened up a graphical GS window (from my Windows installation)
and got the error information I was reporting earlier.
BTW, I'm now running again on Fedora Core 3. I get a very similar error
when I run lilypond on this system with input/test/fret-diagram.ly.
address@hidden lilypond]$ lilypond input/test/fret-diagram.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.5.27
Processing `input/test/fret-diagram.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music... [8][11]
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Calculating line breaks... [3][6][9]
Calculating page breaks...
Layout output to `fret-diagram.ps'...
Converting to `fret-diagram.pdf'...
`gs -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sPAPERSIZE="a4" -q -dNOPAUSE -
dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="fret-diagram.pdf" -c .setpdfwrite
-f "fret-diagram.ps"' failed (256)
error: failed files: "input/test/fret-diagram.ly"
I'm now going to try to identify which features of fret-diagram.ly are
causing trouble.