[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#356468: cupsys: Cupsys incorrectly breaks and restarts prints

[Markus Schaber]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.23-15
Severity: normal

Hello,

>From time to time, cups occasionally restarts printing jobs (e. G. when 
reconfiguring the printer via http://localhost:631 or on crontab runs).

However, it restarts them from the beginning, which is extremely 
annoying if you were on page 115 on a 120-page printout on your inkjet 
printer.

Additionally, as the break seems to occur some midst the command 
sequences sent to the printer, the printer itsself sometimes hangs 
immediately, sometimes restarts the new page in the middle of the page 
it was just printing, occasinally hanging on the end of this page 
afterwards, and other funny effects.

Ideally, the current job should continue running on those occasions.

And the breaking and continuing of jobs should get some notion of "page" 
and "command sequence", so that an ordinary "stop job" (e. G. no 
emergency stop or lprm) stops at the end of the current page, and lets 
the user continue at the beginning of the next page. And an emergency 
stop should always leave the printer in a consistent state, by 
gracefully aborting the current command sequence, and sending a reset to 
the printer.

But seeing the masses of bug reports filed against cupsys, I'm rather 
out of hope for this to be fixed. It seems that you debian maintainers 
gave up, and I'm afraid that I fully understand you...

Thanks for your work,
Markus

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.80            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.4.71          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2            1.1.23-15       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.1.23-15       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls12              1.2.9-2         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.14-5        Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-2         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.6-2.1     /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils               3.01-7          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-9       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.1.23-15        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060113-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.21b-1        a LanManager-like simple client fo

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