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Bug#245514: cupsys: leaves printer in a strange state (fwd)

You asked:
> Please review your bug report and inform us whether it still applies to
> version 1.2.7-4, as present in Debian release 4.0 (Etch), or to newer
> releases present in the testing branch.

Yes.  I just tested it with version 1.2.12-1 and the bug is still there.
For a detailled description see attachment

Thanks,
 Andy.

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 Linux. Because life is too short to reboot.
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Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-1
Severity: normal

Hi, first of all thanks for your efforts!

I've got a strange problem with my Brother HL5050 (postscript) laser,
connected to my Debian/Sarge box with USB.

When printing from OpenOffice I have to reset the printer after every
printout.  It is a reproducible error and I managed to break it down
to this simple test:
 I print the attached PS-file (printed to a file via OpenOffice)
 doing "lpr printertest.ps"
 and it prints out fine.  ("this is a test abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.")

 I print it again and it prints out scrambled, e.g.
  "b hisdsdadestdaT.   efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzc"
 with some characters on top of others etc.

But when I print the same file like so:
 "cat printertest.ps > /dev/usb/lp0"
I can print it as many times as I like without problems.

However, directly after printing it with cups
 "cat printertest.ps > /dev/usb/lp0"
leads to scrambled output as well.
So it seems that the printer is left in some strange state.

Okay, to make it even more confusing (:-) there is one more strange detail
which I stumbled over today:
 If I first print a PDF file (lpr foo.pdf) and then the PS file the error
 doesn't happen at all. (until I turn the printer off)

Really strange, eh?  But pretty annoying, too. :-(

Okay here is all the information you requested:
(
 BTW, there 2 small errors in HOWTO_BUGREPORT.txt:
  4. Set debug level as "debug" in your /etc/cups/cupd.conf
should read:
  4. Set LogLevel to "debug" in your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
)        ^^^                                     ^^^

/etc/cups/printers.conf:
<DefaultPrinter HL5050>
Info Raw queue
Location Spieglnet
DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

- printertest.ps is attached.
- /var/log/cups/error_log is attached.
- /etc/cups/ppd/HL5050.ppd is attached.

Thanks,
 Andy.


-- System Information:
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-kernel.org
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE@euro)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser        3.47                      Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf        1.2.21                    Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp         7.07.1-1                  The Ghostscript Postscript interpr
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-11              GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2  1.1.20final+cvs20040330-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2     1.1.20final+cvs20040330-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls7     0.8.12-5                  GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libpam0g       0.76-15                   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1      1.1.14                    Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1        1.0.8a-2                  OpenSLP libraries
ii  zlib1g         1:1.2.1-4                 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb

Attachment: printertest.ps.gz
Description: Binary data

Attachment: error_log.gz
Description: Binary data

Attachment: HL5050.ppd.gz
Description: Binary data


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