[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#660420: cups: Possibly NO postscript printers work anymore

[Michael Schmitt]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.2-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainers,

as it seems, all postscript printers do not work anymore. I must admit that 
is at this point an assumption, but I can no longer print on any postscript 
printer I own anymore. With the packages still in testing it still works, with 
sids cups (and the version before the curent one) I only get the following 
message in the active-jobs-page on the cups webinterface:
"PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table..."

This happens ALWAYS when trying to print a testpage (from within the cups 
webfrontend), when printing from various apps (iceweasel, libreoffice, ...) it 
does show the printjobs as completed or show the message mentioned above but 
in any case nothing is printed at all. In addition this may freeze my printers 
so that a a complete power-cycle is needed for them to respond again.
I have two kyocera printers, one FS-920 (USB) and one FS-1100 (ethernet), both 
show the same symptoms. I have seen at least some reports on the web with the 
same or similar issue but not limited to kyocera printers.

I file this bug as "grave" so at least a newer cups does not hit testing 
before this issue is somewhat resolved, a workaround or fix known or at least 
known what causes the issue. I did not find any clue up until now and I did 
not have the chance to test other printers, so I am not 100% sure how many 
people will have this issue, but I guess it does hit at least many, maybe even 
all postscript printers. But the last thing is as already said just an 
assumption right now.

regards
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu1
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2
ii  cups-client            1.5.2-4
ii  cups-common            1.5.2-4
ii  cups-filters           1.0.1-1
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.2-4
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  dpkg                   1.16.1.2
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-2
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.30-6
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.30-6
ii  libc6                  2.13-26
ii  libcups2               1.5.2-4
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.2-4
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.2-4
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.2-4
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.2-4
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.18-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.6.2-14
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.16-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.28-1.1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu1
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-9
ii  libstdc++6             4.6.2-14
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.9~rc3-3
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28.1
ii  poppler-utils          0.16.7-3
ii  procps                 1:3.3.2-3
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.28

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon                                        0.6.30-6
ii  colord                                              0.1.16-2
ii  foomatic-filters                                    4.0.12-1
ii  ghostscript-cups                                    9.05~dfsg-2
ii  printer-driver-gutenprint [cups-driver-gutenprint]  5.2.7-5

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd     1.5.2-4
ii  cups-pdf     2.6.1-5
ii  foomatic-db  20120212-1
ii  hplip        3.12.2-1
ii  smbclient    2:3.6.3-1
ii  udev         175-3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: u'/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'

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