[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662999: cups: stopped printing (to parallel HP LaserJet 1320 printer) after 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5 upgrade

Francesco Poli invernomuto at paranoici.org
Wed Mar 7 22:06:59 UTC 2012


Package: cups
Version: 1.5.2-5
Severity: important

Hello maintainers of cups Debian packages,
I am experiencing a very awkward issue.

After the 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5 upgrade, my printer (an HP LaserJet 1320
connected via parallel port) printed a few pages and then printed
a page with the following error message:

  ERROR:
  timeout
  OFFENDING COMMAND:
  timeout
  STACK:
  -mark-
  -mark-
  -mark-

After that, I have no longer been able to print anything, not even
simple text files as in:

  $ echo test | lpr

When I try, the printer does nothing (but sometimes the "printing" LED blinks)
and lpq says

  $ lpq
  lj is ready and printing
  Rank    Owner   Job     File(s)                         Total Size
  active  (null)  503     untitled                        1024 bytes

but nothing happens for a long time, until I lprm the print job.

Since /var/log/cups/error_log says:

E [07/Mar/2012:21:40:23 +0100] Filter "oopstops" not found.
E [07/Mar/2012:21:40:23 +0100] Filter "hpgltops" not found.
E [07/Mar/2012:21:40:23 +0100] Filter "pstoraster" not found.
E [07/Mar/2012:21:40:23 +0100] Filter "pstoraster" not found.
W [07/Mar/2012:21:40:23 +0100] failed to CreateProfile: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files
W [07/Mar/2012:21:40:23 +0100] failed to CreateDevice: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files

I thought it could perhaps be bug #662025 and tried downgrading
foomatic-filters to version 4.0.9-1 (even though I had not upgraded it
recently...), but this didn't help.

I thought that maybe it needed colord (which I didn't install, as it is
only a recommendation, not a dependency, and pulls in many other packages
that I would rather avoid seeing on a headless box that should run a
print server and only a few other services): I tried installing colord
and its numerous dependencies, but this didn't help either.

I tried upgrading cups, cups-bsd, cups-client to 1.5.2-6 (currently
in unstable), but no joy.

If I downgrade to the previously working version:

  # cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
  # dpkg -i cups_1.5.0-13_i386.deb cups-bsd_1.5.0-13_i386.deb cups-client_1.5.0-13_i386.deb cups-common_1.5.0-13_all.deb libcupsdriver1_1.5.0-13_i386.deb cups-ppdc_1.5.0-13_i386.deb libcups2_1.5.0-13_i386.deb libcupscgi1_1.5.0-13_i386.deb libcupsimage2_1.5.0-13_i386.deb libcupsmime1_1.5.0-13_i386.deb libcupsppdc1_1.5.0-13_i386.deb
 # dpkg --purge cups-filters libcupsfilters1
 # dpkg --configure --pending
 # dpkg-reconfigure cups
   (enable raw and add parallel backend, that somehow got disabled)

I am again able to print text files and PDF files.

I have just pinned packages cups-common cups cups-ppdc libcups2 libcupscgi1 libcupsdriver1 libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1  to version 1.5.0-13, but 
I would of course like to use my printer with up-to-date cups packages!

Please help me to figure out what went wrong!
Thanks for your time.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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 cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu1
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2
ii  cups-client            1.5.2-5
ii  cups-common            1.5.2-5
ii  cups-filters           1.0.2-1
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.2-5
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               1.5.2-5
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.2-5
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.2-5
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.2-5
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.2-5
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.18-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.6.3-1
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             4.6.3-1
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                                        <none>
ii  colord                                              <none>
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint                              5.2.7-5
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     1.5.2-5
ii  cups-pdf     <none>
ii  foomatic-db  20120212-1
ii  hplip        <none>
ii  smbclient    <none>
ii  udev         175-3.1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf changed:
LogLevel warn
MaxLogSize 0
SystemGroup lpadmin
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
Browsing Off
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS dnssd
DefaultAuthType Basic
WebInterface No
<Location />
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin>
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Policy default>
  # Job/subscription privacy...
  JobPrivateAccess default
  JobPrivateValues default
  SubscriptionPrivateAccess default
  SubscriptionPrivateValues default
  # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an administrator...
  <Limit Create-Job Print-Job Print-URI Validate-Job>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job Cancel-My-Jobs Close-Job CUPS-Move-Job CUPS-Get-Document>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  # All administration operations require an administrator to authenticate...
  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default CUPS-Get-Devices>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  # All printer operations require a printer operator to authenticate...
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After Cancel-Jobs CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
  <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
</Policy>
<Policy authenticated>
  # Job/subscription privacy...
  JobPrivateAccess default
  JobPrivateValues default
  SubscriptionPrivateAccess default
  SubscriptionPrivateValues default
  # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an administrator...
  <Limit Create-Job Print-Job Print-URI Validate-Job>
    AuthType Default
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job Cancel-My-Jobs Close-Job CUPS-Move-Job CUPS-Get-Document>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  # All administration operations require an administrator to authenticate...
  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  # All printer operations require a printer operator to authenticate...
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After Cancel-Jobs CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel or authenticate a job...
  <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
</Policy>


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





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