[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#421049: cupsys: Problems setting printer options with fxlinuxprint PPD file

[Ivan Raikov]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.7-4
Severity: normal

Hello,

I have installed the fxlinuxprint package from

  <http://download.fujixerox.co.jp/apeosport/download/c4300series/linux.html>

using alien, and I have removed CR/LF character symbols from the
fxlinuxprint.ppd file, so that it passes cupstestppd:

cupstestppd /usr/share/cups/model/FujiXerox/en/fxlinuxprint.ppd
  /usr/share/cups/model/FujiXerox/en/fxlinuxprint.ppd: PASS
  WARN    DefaultResolution has no corresponding options!

Then, I attempted to add a new network printer to CUPS via the Web
interface, using the fxlinuxprint.ppd file. I have set the printer as
a remote LPD host:

  Description: Fuji-Xerox DocuCentre II C2200
  Location: Lab 5054
  Make and Model: FX Printer Driver for Linux
  Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
  Device URI: lpd://172.20.3.10/port1

I am able to print jobs fine, however if I try to set the printer
options via the Web interface, I get the following error:

      Error: Not Found.

The lpoptions command also reports:  Destination lp has no PPD file!

I figured out that if I copy the fxlinuxprint.ppd file to
/etc/cups/ppd/lp.ppd, I can get lpoptions to set the printer options.
However, the Web interface now reports:

      Error: Missing PPD-Adobe-4.x header

I am not sure why this error occurs, as I have made sure that
cupstestppd passes the PPD file, and it should be read correctly. It
is also not clear why CUPS does not automatically copy the ppd file to
/etc/cups/ppd when the printer entry is created. I appreciate all help
with these issues.

     -Ivan



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.102           Add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common            1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.13          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                    2.3.6.ds1-13    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.7-4         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.0.2-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.4.4-3         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13.4     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-4          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.21          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-6.2       OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-23.1        Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-7         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.7-3       /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         1.2.7-4            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient             3.0.24-6           a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb