Bug#393240: hplip: Coverpages fail to rasterize

["Todd A. Jacobs" <tjacobs-kw-reportbug.e56379@codegnome.org>]

Package: hplip
Version: 1.6.7-2
Severity: important


Essentially, things just fail to rasterize. I tried using the GUI to
just send a cover page. The GUI will say "Initializing..." until it
fails, at which point stderr says:

    error: Timeout waiting for rendering. Canceling job #273...
    error: Error, aborting

and the GUI tells me "Fax send error."

I also tried using the GUI to attach a text file containing nothing but
the word "Test" in it, and got this once it timed out:

    error: Invalid file header. Bad magic.
    error: Error, aborting.
    error: Fax send error.
    
So, I tried the non-interactive approach with the --gg debugging flag,
and get this sort of thing instead:

    Using printer fax (None)
    Fax data is here for job 271!
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/hp-sendfax", line 799, in ?
        service.sendEvent(hpssd_sock, EVENT_END_FAX_JOB, device_uri=device_uri)
      File "/usr/lib/hplip/base/service.py", line 87, in sendEvent                                                                                              msg.sendEvent(sock, 'Event', data, fields)
      File "/usr/lib/hplip/base/msg.py", line 114, in sendEvent
        log.debug("Sending data on channel (%d)" % sock.fileno())
      File "<string>", line 1, in fileno
      File "/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 136, in _dummy                                                                                                  raise error(EBADF, 'Bad file descriptor')                                                                                                           socket.error: (9, 'Bad file descriptor')

So, clearly something isn't right with either hplip itself, or with the
interface to python-reportlab.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.97        Add and remove users and groups
ii  coreutils                    5.97-5      The GNU core utilities
ii  cupsys                       1.2.4-2+b1  Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hplip-data                   1.6.7-2     HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsys2                   1.2.4-2+b1  Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.1.1-13  GCC support library
ii  libsnmp9                     5.2.3-1     NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8c-3    SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6                   4.1.1-13    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.12-2  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  python                       2.4.3-11    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-qt3                   3.16-1.2    Qt3 bindings for Python
ii  python-support               0.5.2       automated rebuilding support for p

Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii  cupsys-client              1.2.4-2+b1    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  hpijs                      2.6.7+1.6.7-2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii  hpijs-ppds                 2.6.7+1.6.7-2 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii  python-reportlab           2.0dfsg-1     ReportLab library to create PDF do

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