Package: cups Version: 1.4.1-4 Severity: important Printing plain text is almost impossible without filtering them to PS or PDF.
just echo . | lpr generates the following errors D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] Report: clients=0 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] Report: jobs=38 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] Report: jobs-active=0 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] Report: printers=1 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] Report: printers-implicit=0 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] Report: stringpool-string-count=441 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=7152 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:07 +0100] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=9336 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:09 +0100] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost:631 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = 192.168.1.31:631 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost:631 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = fe80::219:66ff:fe59:216e%eth0:631 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdAcceptClient: 12 from localhost (Domain) D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 12 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 12 1.1 CUPS-Get-Default 1 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] CUPS-Get-Default D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Get-Default (no URI) from localhost D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 12 POST /printers/lexmark HTTP/1.1 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 12 1.1 Create-Job 1 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Create-Job ipp://localhost:631/printers/lexmark D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdMarkDirty(----J-) D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] add_job: requesting-user-name="melmoth" I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Adding start banner page "none". D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused job-created event... I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Queued on "lexmark" by "melmoth". D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Returning IPP successful-ok for Create-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/lexmark) from localhost D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 12 POST /printers/lexmark HTTP/1.1 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 12 1.1 Send-Document 1 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Send-Document ipp://localhost:631/printers/lexmark D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdIsAuthorized: requesting-user-name="melmoth" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Auto-typing file... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Request file type is text/plain. D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdMarkDirty(----J-) I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] File of type text/plain queued by "melmoth". I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Adding end banner page "none". D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdMarkDirty(----J-) D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdMarkDirty(----J-) D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients, printing jobs, and dirty files D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] job-sheets=none,none D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] argv[0]="lexmark" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] argv[1]="42" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] argv[2]="melmoth" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] argv[3]="(stdin)" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] argv[4]="1" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] argv[5]="finishings=3 media=iso_a4_210x297mm number-up=1 sides=one-sided job-uuid=urn:uuid:1915656a-3e63-30d5-5e17-35861b401952 job-originating-host-name=localhost" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] argv[6]="/var/spool/cups/d00042-001" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[0]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[1]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[2]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/cups/doc-root" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[4]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[7]="CUPS_STATEDIR=/var/run/cups" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[8]="HOME=/var/spool/cups/tmp" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[9]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[10]="server_admin=r...@universe.krase.net" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[11]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.4.1" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[12]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[13]="TZ=Europe/Rome" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[14]="USER=root" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[15]="CUPS_SERVER=/var/run/cups/cups.sock" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[16]="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[17]="IPP_PORT=631" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[18]="CHARSET=utf-8" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[19]="LANG=it_IT.UTF-8" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[20]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/lexmark.ppd" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[21]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=258636k" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[22]="CONTENT_TYPE=text/plain" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[23]="DEVICE_URI=usb://Lexmark/E120?serial=9957C6H" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[24]="PRINTER_INFO=Lexmark E120" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[25]="PRINTER_LOCATION=Scrivania" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[26]="PRINTER=lexmark" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[27]="CUPS_FILETYPE=document" D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] envp[28]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=printer/lexmark" I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf (PID 16284) I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf (PID 16285) I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 16286) I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 16287) D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused job-state-changed event... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Returning IPP successful-ok for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/lexmark) from localhost D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] STATE: +connecting-to-device D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] print_device_libusb D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] usb_find_busses=5 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdSetBusyState: Printing jobs and dirty files D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdReadClient: 12 WAITING Closing on EOF D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] cupsdCloseClient: 12 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Page = 595x842; 18,14 to 577,828 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] PID 16284 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf) exited with no errors. E [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Unterminated string D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] Set job-printer-state-message to "Unterminated string", current level=ERROR D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused job-progress event... E [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] End of file inside dictionary D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused job-progress event... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] PID 16285 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf) exited with no errors. D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] usb_find_devices=8 D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] STATE: +connecting-to-device D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] STATE: -connecting-to-device D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] XXX 1 |usb://Lexmark/E120?serial=9957C6H| D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:14 +0100] [Job 42] XXX L |usb://Lexmark/E120?serial=9957C6H|usb://Lexmark/E120?serial=9957C6H| D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:15 +0100] PID 16286 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) exited with no errors. D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:15 +0100] PID 16287 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb) exited with no errors. D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:15 +0100] Discarding unused job-completed event... I [18/Nov/2009:15:07:15 +0100] [Job 42] Job completed. D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:15 +0100] cupsdMarkDirty(----J-) D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:15 +0100] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event... D [18/Nov/2009:15:07:16 +0100] [Job 42] Unloading... Output of foomatic-rip (with debug enabled) foomatic-rip version 4.0.1.208 running... called with arguments: '42', 'melmoth', '(stdin)', '1', 'finishings=3 media=iso_a4_210x297mm number-up=1 sides=one-sided job-uuid=urn:uuid:1915656a-3e63-30d5-5e17-35861b401952 job-originating-host-name=localhost' Getting input from file Parsing PPD file ... Added option Resolution Added option PageSize Added option Model Added option PrintoutMode Added option InputSlot Added option ImageableArea Added option PaperDimension Added option Duplex Added option Quality Added option Font Parameter Summary ----------------- Spooler: cups Printer: lexmark Shell: /bin/bash PPD file: /etc/cups/ppd/lexmark.ppd ATTR file: Printer model: Lexmark E120 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) Options: finishings=3 media=iso_a4_210x297mm number-up=1 sides=one-sided job-uuid=urn:uuid:1915656a-3e63-30d5-5e17-35861b401952 job-originating-host-name=localhost Job title: stdin File(s) to be printed: <STDIN> Ghostscript extra search path ('GS_LIB'): /usr/share/cups/fonts Printing system options: Pondering option 'finishings=3' Unknown option finishings=3. Pondering option 'media=iso_a4_210x297mm' Unknown "media" component: "iso_a4_210x297mm". Pondering option 'number-up=1' Unknown option number-up=1. Pondering option 'sides=one-sided' Pondering option 'job-uuid=urn:uuid:1915656a-3e63-30d5-5e17-35861b401952' Unknown option job-uuid=urn:uuid:1915656a-3e63-30d5-5e17-35861b401952. Pondering option 'job-originating-host-name=localhost' Unknown option job-originating-host-name=localhost. Options from the PPD file: Starting process "reset-file" (generation 1) reset-file exited with status 0 ================================================ File: <STDIN> ================================================ Filetype: PDF Storing temporary files in /var/spool/cups/tmp Ghostscript: **** Warning: File has a corrupted %%EOF marker, or garbage after %%EOF. File contains 1 pages Starting renderer with command: gs -dFirstPage=1 -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="HP LaserJet" -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dDuplex=false -r300 -sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=0,PS:MediaPosition=7 -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=- /var/spool/cups/tmp/foomatic-sFEwyD Starting process "kid3" (generation 1) Starting process "kid4" (generation 2) JCL: %-123...@pjl <job data> Starting process "renderer" (generation 2) **** Warning: File has a corrupted %%EOF marker, or garbage after %%EOF. **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored. **** The file was produced by: **** >>>> pdftopdf <<<< **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF **** specification. renderer exited with status 0 kid4 exited with status 0 kid3 finished Kid3 exit status: 0 Closing foomatic-rip. Also, if this can help, I had this issue (which seems fixed) http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395 I'm using this ppd http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=183 with this line added. *JCLEnd: "%-123...@pjl RESET " Best regards -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cups depends on: ii adduser 3.111 add and remove users and groups ii bc 1.06.95-2 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal ii cups-client 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii cups-common 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii ghostscript 8.70~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-1 Avahi common library ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcups2 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupscgi1 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsdriver1 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsimage2 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsmime1 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libcupsppdc1 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library ii libgnutls26 2.8.4-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libijs-0.35 0.35-7 IJS raster image transport protoco ii libkrb5-3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.17-2.1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpaper1 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact ii libpoppler4 0.10.6-1 PDF rendering library ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.6 OpenSLP libraries ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii perl-modules 5.10.1-7 Core Perl modules ii poppler-utils [xpdf-ut 0.10.6-1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii procps 1:3.2.8-2 /proc file system utilities ii ssl-cert 1.0.24 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL ii ttf-freefont 20090104-4 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime Versions of packages cups recommends: ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.4-1 printer drivers for CUPS ii foomatic-filters 4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil ii ghostscript-cups 8.70~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF Versions of packages cups suggests: ii cups-bsd 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - pn cups-pdf <none> (no description available) ii cups-ppdc 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii foomatic-db 20090616-1 OpenPrinting printer support - dat ii foomatic-db-engine 4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro ii hplip 3.9.4b-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst ii smbclient 2:3.4.3-1 command-line SMB/CIFS clients for ii udev 146-5 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japane <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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