On Thursday 14 October 2010 14:15:12 Vincent Launchbury wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been using my printer problem free for years, but a recent world > update seems to have broken something. Now whenever I print I get: > > (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 1! > [Job 129] Job stopped due to filter errors. > > and the job eventually vanishes from the queue. I've tried reinstalling > (and later downgrading) foomatic-filters, ghostscript-gpl, and cups. > I've also tried deleting and re-adding the printer, restarting cups, > restarting the printer.. etc, and nothing seems to be helping. > > The foomatic-rip script says the return code 1 means "printer error > occured", but my printer's error light isn't flashing. > > Also, revdep-rebuild shows nothing, and I do read ewarns. Hopefully I > haven't missed something obvious. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Vincent. > > Current versions: > foomatic-filters-3.0.20080507 > ghostscript-gpl-8.71-r1 > cups-1.3.11-r2 > Printer: > PagePro 1350W (simple ps-compat, using ppd from openprinting.org)
Have you tried unmasking and using cups-1.4.4-r2 ? I came up to some problems as described in a previous thread and some nice people in this list suggested to use a later version, which fixed some (but not all) of my problems. Regards, Mick
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