[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#381743: cupsys: printing any file give "Unsupported format 'the/format'"

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


All over a sudden, cups refuses to print anything:

$ lpr -P stylusd88 ~ingrid/reise
lpr: Unsupported format 'text/plain'!

>From the log:
localhost - - [06/Aug/2006:22:56:39 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 351 CUPS-Get-Classes successful-ok
localhost - - [06/Aug/2006:22:56:39 +0200] "POST /printers/stylusd88 HTTP/1.1" 200 2545 Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported

at level debug, I get:
D [06/Aug/2006:22:58:35 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/stylusd88 HTTP/1.1
D [06/Aug/2006:22:58:35 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [06/Aug/2006:22:58:35 +0200] Print-Job  ipp://localhost/printers/stylusd88
D [06/Aug/2006:22:58:35 +0200] print_job: auto-typing file...
D [06/Aug/2006:22:58:35 +0200] print_job: request file type is text/plain.
I [06/Aug/2006:22:58:35 +0200] Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported: Unsupported format 'text/plain'!
D [06/Aug/2006:22:58:35 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=40a (client-error-document-format-not-supported)
D [06/Aug/2006:22:58:35 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 9

and alas, it is indeed a text/plain file:

# file ~ingrid/reise
/home/ingrid/reise: ISO-8859 text

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.96            Add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common            1.2.2-1         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.3           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.2.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libacl1                  2.2.41-1        Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.2-1         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.2-1         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-2              0.62-4          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.4.1-1         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13+b1    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.19          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-10          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-6         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.7-2       /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-9          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-13      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.2.2-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060712-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
pn  smbclient               <none>           (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/ports: 127.0.0.1:631
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
  cupsys/portserror:
  cupsys/browse: true