Bug#427679: cupsys: cups/foomatic-rip need better error reporting
Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.11-2
Severity: important
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First of all, I'm not quite certain where the best place to fix this bug
is (or even if cupsys itself needs to be fixed). Please reassign this
bug if it's really only a bug in foomatic-filters. ;)
Anyway, I was setting up a printer today and I ran into the problem that
I didn't have the foo2qpdl binary from the foo2zjs package available.
The problem was that CUPS' error reporting was quite poor.
CUPS said that the status of the printer was "/usr/bin/foomatic-rip
failed". But it didn't say _why_ it failed. I had to run 'foomatic-rip
- -v -P printername' by hand, and pipe some postscript through it in order
to find out why it failed.
Ideally, CUPS would say something like: "foomatic-rip failed: foo2qpd: no
such file".
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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 1.2.7-4 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 2.5-9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsys2 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgnutls13 1.6.3-1 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 1:1.2.3-15 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn foomatic-filters <none> (no description available)
ii smbclient 3.0.25a-1 a LanManager-like simple client fo
- -- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: false
* cupsys/ports: 631
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
cupsys/portserror:
* cupsys/browse: true
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