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

[Francesco Poli]

found 662999 cups-filters/1.0.2-1
thanks


On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:29:24 +0000 Brian Potkin wrote:

> reassign 662999 cups-filters
> thanks
> 
> 
> Hello Francesco,

Hi Brian!
Thanks for your reply and sorry for following up so late...

> 
> The parallel backend is from the cups-filters package, so reassigning.

OK, I am registering a found version for the BTS version tracking...

> 
> > I tried upgrading cups, cups-bsd, cups-client to 1.5.2-6 (currently
> > in unstable), but no joy.
> 
> cups-filters 1.0.5-1 may be what you want. It does fix a problem with
> the parallel backend.

Well, I've just done the following tests.

First of all, after removing the pins, I performed the following
upgrades:

[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] cups-filters
[INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] libcupsfilters1
[UPGRADE] cups 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] cups-bsd 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] cups-client 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] cups-common 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] cups-ppdc 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] libcups2 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] libcupscgi1 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] libcupsdriver1 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] libcupsimage2 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] libcupsmime1 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5
[UPGRADE] libcupsppdc1 1.5.0-13 -> 1.5.2-5

This took me up-to-date with respect with current testing (with
cups-filters/1.0.2-1).
With this setup, I was still able to reproduce the bug.

After that, I tried upgrading cups-filters to the version currently in
unstable:

[UPGRADE] cups-filters 1.0.2-1 -> 1.0.7-1

This completely changed the outcome of the tests.
I was able to print simple text files, as in:

  $ echo test | lpr

but no PDF file could be printed at all:

  $ lpr file.pdf

produced a blank page, followed by a page with the error message:

  ERROR:
  invalidaccess
  OFFENDING COMMAND:
  filter
  STACK:
  /SubFileDecode
  endstream
  0
  --nostringval--
  --nostringval--
  15
  false

or similar (with "17" instead of "15", for instance).
I don't know if this new issue is related to the bug I originally
reported (maybe the new issue is #661866 ?!?).

Anyway, I am still unable to use up-to-date cups...

I downgraded back to cups/1.5.0-13 and friends, as described in my
original bug report.
Now I am again able to print text files and PDF files.


Please fix the new cups(-filters) packages!
Thanks for your time.


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