From: Alan Chandler on
I have just tried to move my printer from an old lenny system to my
desktop (running sid).

I seem to have created a printer OK, but an attempt to print a test page
fails. The view error log function on the cups web page shows the
following (I have tried to pickup key parts from a VERY LONG file -
debug is on at the moment)

D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Running /usr/bin/pdftops
-level2 -origpagesizes /var/spool/cups/tmp/pdftops.ZYEAkF -
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Running pstops '104' 'root'
'Test Page' '1' ' job-uuid=urn:uuid:a4a29c47-6877-33a9-5cd4-02a51331b57c
job-originating-host-name=localhost'
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Page size: A4
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Error: May not be a PDF file
(continuing anyway)
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Error: PDF file is damaged -
attempting to reconstruct xref table...
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Error: Couldn't find trailer
dictionary
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Error: Couldn't read xref table
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Width: 595, height: 842,
absolute margins: 18, 36, 577, 806
E [02/Dec/2009:12:32:10 +0000] [Job 104] Empty print file!




D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:11 +0000] [Job 104] Last OS error: 32
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:11 +0000] [Job 104] GPL Ghostscript 8.70:
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:11 +0000] [Job 104] GPL Ghostscript 8.70: ERROR -12
closing pdfwrite device. See gs/src/ierrors.h for code explanation.
D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:11 +0000] PID 17774 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf)
stopped with status 1!


D [02/Dec/2009:12:32:17 +0000] [CGI]
/usr/share/cups/drivers/pscript5.dll: No such file or directory







Can anyone tell from this what is wrong - the log against the job just
says "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf failed"

(I note in my older version of cups on lenny this filter didn't exist)





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From: Camaleón on
On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:47:35 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:

> I have just tried to move my printer from an old lenny system to my
> desktop (running sid).
>
> I seem to have created a printer OK, but an attempt to print a test page
> fails. The view error log function on the cups web page shows the
> following (I have tried to pickup key parts from a VERY LONG file -
> debug is on at the moment)

(...)


> Can anyone tell from this what is wrong - the log against the job just
> says "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf failed"
>
> (I note in my older version of cups on lenny this filter didn't exist)

JFYI, your error log and symptoms are quite similar to the ones mentioned
in this bug report:

Debian Bug report logs - #522722
(/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstopdf) stopped with status 1! (/usr/lib/cups/
filter/pstopdf) stopped with status 1!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522722

Greetings,

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From: Ben Pearre on
Hi!

I was seeing that yesterday (cups 1.4.2-3, libpoppler 0.12.2-2) as
well. Today Debian unstable is shipping cups 1.4.2-4 and my printing
works again.


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From: Alan Chandler on
Ben Pearre wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was seeing that yesterday (cups 1.4.2-3, libpoppler 0.12.2-2) as
> well. Today Debian unstable is shipping cups 1.4.2-4 and my printing
> works again.
>
>

I upgraded - and it certainly gets further than yesterday. My printer
acted as though it was going to print something, the ready light flashed
for a while (as though something is being downloaded to it) and then it
stopped and nothing came out.

HOWEVER, I then changed the printer.ppd file from the one I had been
using on my lenny system, and printing seemed to work perfectly.

So it looks like there is something wrong with the .ppd file.


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