Hey Martin, Thanks for this bug report.
Is the host where this fails running a cups-pdf that was upgraded from previous releases? Martin-Éric ke 3. heinäk. 2019 klo 11.09 martin f krafft (madd...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf > Version: 3.0.1-5 > Severity: normal > > The PDF driver is failing to write the output PDFs. For example, a > command like > > echo foo | lp -d PDF > > yields the following DEBUG output in the log: > > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] *** Final Configuration *** > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] AnonDirName = > "/var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] AnonUser = "nobody" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] GhostScript = "/usr/bin/gs" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] GSCall = "%s -q > -dCompatibilityLevel=%s -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite > -sOutputFile="%s" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage > -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode > -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f %s" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] Grp = "lpadmin" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] GSTmp = "TMPDIR=/var/tmp" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] Log = "/var/log/cups" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] PDFVer = "1.4" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] PostProcessing = "" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] Out = "${HOME}/PDF" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] Spool = > "/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] UserPrefix = "" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] RemovePrefix = "" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] OutExtension = "pdf" > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] Cut = -1 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] Truncate = 256 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] DirPrefix = 0 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] Label = 0 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] LogType = 4 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] LowerCase = 1 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] TitlePref = 1 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] DecodeHexStrings = 1 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] FixNewlines = 0 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] AllowUnsafeOptions = 0 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] AnonUMask = 0000 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] UserUMask = 0077 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] *** End of Configuration *** > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] set new gid: lpadmin > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] initialization finished: v3.0.1 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] user identified: madduck > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] output directory name generated: > /home/ssd/madduck/PDF > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] user information prepared > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] spoolfile name created: > /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-8702 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] source stream ready > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] destination stream ready: > /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-8702 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] owner set for spoolfile: > /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-8702 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] using traditional fgets > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] found beginning of postscript code: > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] now extracting postscript code > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] found title in ps code: ((stdin)) > madduck/PDF > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] found end of postscript code: %%EOF > > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] all data written to spoolfile: > /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-8702 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] trying to use commandline title: > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] checking for hex strings: > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] not a hex string, has no start marker: > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] calling alternate_replace_string > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] removing alternate special characters > from title: > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] empty commandline title, using PS > title: ((stdin)) > madduck/PDF > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] checking for hex strings: ((stdin)) > madduck/PDF > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] not a hex string, has no start marker: > ((stdin)) > madduck/PDF > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] calling alternate_replace_string > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] removing alternate special characters > from title: ((stdin)) > madduck/PDF > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] removing leading _ from title: > __stdin___madduck_PDF > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] title successfully retrieved: > stdin___madduck_PDF > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] input data read from stdin > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] output filename created: > /home/ssd/madduck/PDF/stdin___madduck_PDF.pdf > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] ghostscript commandline built: > /usr/bin/gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER > -sDEVICE=pdfwrite > -sOutputFile="/home/ssd/madduck/PDF/stdin___madduck_PDF.pdf" > -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false > -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f > /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-8702 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] output file unlinked: > /home/ssd/madduck/PDF/stdin___madduck_PDF.pdf > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] TMPDIR set for GhostScript: /var/tmp > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] waiting for child to exit > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] entering child process > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] GID set for current user > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] supplementary groups set for current > user > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] UID set for current user: madduck > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] ghostscript has finished: 256 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] no postprocessing > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] spoolfile unlinked: > /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-8702 > Wed Jul 3 09:40:55 2019 [DEBUG] all memory has been freed > > Not only is the output file unlinked right after the call to > /usr/bin/gs; This call itself also fails with a "permission denied" > error, according to strace: > > [pid 2545] openat(AT_FDCWD, > "/home/ssd/madduck/PDF/stdin___madduck_PDF.pdf", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, > 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > > The target directory is 0700, but even changing it to 1777 doesn't > fix things. > > Note that if I reduce the LogLevel to 3 in /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf, > then the log output suggests that PDF creation is being successful, > after failing to set the file mode: > > Wed Jul 3 09:44:00 2019 [ERROR] failed to set file mode for PDF file: > /home/ssd/madduck/PDF/2019-07-03-094400-740472161-muttprint.pdf (non fatal) > Wed Jul 3 09:44:00 2019 [STATUS] PDF creation successfully finished > for madduck > > Again, using strace, the error derives from the following call to > chmod > > [pid 2543] chmod("/home/ssd/madduck/PDF/stdin___madduck_PDF.pdf", 0600) > = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > > which obviously fails, as the file has never been created, and it > was unlinked anyway. > > Finally, please note that I have a second sid system, pretty much > identical to this one, with an identical cups-pdf.conf file, but > there, the PDF file is written just fine. > > Also note that this used to work, but recently stopped working on > this machine. Unfortunately, I am unable to say what has changed > since then, as I didn't take note when the problem first appeared. > > -- > System Information: > Debian Release: 10.0 > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND > Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf depends on: > ii cups 2.2.10-6 > ii cups-client 2.2.10-6 > ii ghostscript 9.27~dfsg-2 > ii libc6 2.28-10 > ii libcups2 2.2.10-6 > ii libpaper-utils 1.1.28 > > printer-driver-cups-pdf recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf suggests: > pn system-config-printer <none> > > -- > Configuration Files: > /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf changed: > Out ${HOME}/PDF > Truncate 256 > Cut -1 > TitlePref 1 > Grp lpadmin > DecodeHexStrings 1 > > > -- > no debconf information > > -- > .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> @martinkrafft > : :' : proud Debian developer > `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems >