[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#673289: cups-filters: PID xxxxx (/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf) crashed on signal 6.

[Paul Menzel]

found 673289 1.0.18-1
quit


Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2012, 16:24 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel:

> printing a text file with just the character `_`
> 
>         $ more /tmp/t.txt 
>         _
> 
> with
> 
>         lpr /tmp/t.txt
> 
> only an empty page is printed. Looking at `/var/log/cups/error.log` the filter `` seems to have crashed.
> 
>         E [17/May/2012:11:11:01 +0200] PID 10055 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf) crashed on signal 6.

[…]

As an update I can reproduce this also with 1.0.18-1 and the following
command.

    lpr -PCUPS-PDF-Printer sometextfile.txt


Thanks,

Paul
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