[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#533186: cups: Cups not recognising/liking file formats

[Philip J. Clark]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.10-4
Severity: important


After updating my system this morning I can no longer print to any
of my printers. I get:

> lpr x.log 
lpr: Unsupported format 'text/plain'!

or

> lpr test.ps 
lpr: Unsupported format 'application/postscript'!

I've turned on the debug level in cups and the error log has:

 [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] cupsdCloseClient: 9
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ppe-pclaser HTTP/1.1
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] Print-Job ipp://localhost/printers/ppe-pclaser
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] [Job ???] Auto-typing file...
I [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] [Job ???] Request file type is text/plain.
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported: Unsupported format 'text/plain'!
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=40a (client-error-document-format-not-supported)
D [15/Jun/2009:14:15:20 +0100] cupsdCloseClient: 9

Any help would be much appreciated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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
ii  bc                       1.06.94-3.1     The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-client              1.3.10-4        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-common              1.3.10-4        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.26          Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript              8.64~dfsg-10    The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-libdnssd 0.6.25-1        Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                    2.9-15          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2                 1.3.10-4        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2            1.3.10-4        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.14-2        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.4.0-6       GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26              2.6.6-1         the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2         1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35              0.35-7          IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3                1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2            2.4.15-1.1      OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 1.0.1-9         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.23+nmu1     library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler4              0.10.6-1        PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-7.5       OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6               4.4.0-6         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-22          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules             5.10.0-23       Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf-util 0.10.6-1        PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                   1:3.2.8-1       /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert                 1.0.23          simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont             20090104-2      Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-utils               0.6.25-1       Avahi browsing, publishing and dis
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint    5.2.3-3        printer drivers for CUPS
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
pn  ghostscript-cups          <none>         (no description available)
ii  smbclient                 2:3.3.4-2      command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd               1.3.10-4          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-pdf               2.5.0-3           PDF printer for CUPS
ii  foomatic-db            20090508-1        OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine     4.0-20090509-1+b1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
ii  hplip                  3.9.4b-1          HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-jap <none>            (no description available)

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd