[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#523327: cups: Can't print self-test page

[Reuben Thomas]

Package: cups
Severity: normal


For an Epson 1290, CUPS offers both "Print test page" and "Print
self-test page". The former works fine, producing a CUPS-generated
page. The latter fails, producing the error:

Error from /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster

in the web interface. I can't find a corresponding error in the logs.
This seems to be because the relevant bit of log is missing: the last
rotated logfile error_log.1.gz ends at 05:20 this morning, the current
log file error_log starts at 12:28 today, and there is also a logfile
error_log.O which is 1,048,589 bytes long and contains entries from a
few seconds apart all in the minute of 12:28. I tried to print the
self-test page at about 12:23. It looks as though the logging system
got rather busy and some entries were lost altogether...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser         3.110                    add and remove users and groups
pn  cups-common     <none>                   (no description available)
ii  debconf [debcon 1.5.24                   Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript     8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
pn  libavahi-compat <none>                   (no description available)
ii  libc6           2.7-18                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2        1.3.8-1lenny4.1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2   1.3.8-1lenny4.1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3     1.2.1-5                  simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26     2.4.2-6+lenny1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53        1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2   2.4.11-1                 OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g        1.0.1-5                  Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1       1.1.23+nmu1              library for handling paper charact
pn  libslp1         <none>                   (no description available)
ii  lsb-base        3.2-20                   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules    5.10.0-19                Core Perl modules
ii  procps          1:3.2.7-11               /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert        1.0.23                   simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  xpdf-utils [pop 3.02-1.4                 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-utils               0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
pn  cups-client               <none>         (no description available)
pn  foomatic-filters          <none>         (no description available)
ii  smbclient                 2:3.2.5-4      a LanManager-like simple client fo

Versions of packages cups suggests:
pn  cups-bsd                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint        <none>     (no description available)
pn  cups-pdf                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db-engine            <none>     (no description available)
pn  hplip                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none>     (no description available)