Bug#424705: cupsys: upgrade causes printing problems
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.11-2
Severity: normal
After upgrading to 1.2.11-2, strange problems started happening. On
two separate servers, printing to a Brother HL2040 has stopped
functioning. According to cups and all the log information I could
find, cups thinks the print jobs are working fine, but nothing even
comes out. This printer is printed to via samba.
The second printer I have configured on both servers is an HP1320. On
one server, it prints, but remarkably slowly (it takes about 5 minutes
a page to print). While it's printing, cups run exceedingly slow.
Looking at system resources, the cpu is idle, the hard drive is idle,
the network is idle, and no other programs appear to be slow. From
the other server, print jobs to that printer go fast, but it will
occassionally decide to stop printing to it at all; in this case,
restarting cups fixes it. This printer is printed to via a network
socket (standard jetdirect).
For both servers, downgrading cupsys and cupsys-common fixes the
problem. I wish I had more debug info to provide, but I'm at a loss
as to what the underlying issue is so far.
--Nick
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii cupsys-common 1.2.11-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs-esp 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii libc6 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.11-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.2.11-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-5 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls13 1.6.2-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.4 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.21 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-6.2 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.7-3 /proc file system utilities
ii xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.02-1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-14 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.11-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn foomatic-filters <none> (no description available)
ii smbclient 3.0.25-1 a LanManager-like simple client fo
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
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