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

Brian Potkin claremont102 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 18:04:04 UTC 2012


On Mon 26 Mar 2012 at 23:21:40 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:

> 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:

Installing unstable's libcupsfilters1 too may be worth a try. Bug
#664966 might also have a bearing on the outcome. There is also the
README to look at.

>   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 ?!?).

At first I thought not but then I read this (which has the changelog for
what will probably be the next version of cups-filters):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/+bug/960666

Regards,

Brian.





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