Bug#712105: foomatic-filters: foomatic-rip fails when using bjc250gs driver
control: tags -1 + morinfo
control: severity -1 important
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Tom Maneiro <tomman@tsdx.net.ve> wrote:
> Package: foomatic-filters
> Version: 4.0.17-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> I have a good old Canon BJC-250 printer that I've been using for years on my
> Linux stations. Currently it's plugged to an old Pentium box (since it's
> parport) running Wheezy which acts as a print server. The printer had worked
> flawlessly with older distros/CUPS/foomatic versions, and I'm using the
> bjc250gs drivers as it is the fastest driver for it (and it allows to tune some
> printer-specific features).
>
> However, since having moved all my systems to Wheezy (i386 and amd64, all clean
> installs), the bjc250gs driver is unusable for me, since it always causes
> foomatic-rip to end abruptly, and therefore nothing is sent to the printer. I
> had enabled debugging messages on CUPS, but found nothing interesting except
> for this:
>
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57] Options from the PPD file:
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57]
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57]
> ================================================
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57]
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57] File: <STDIN>
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57]
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57]
> ================================================
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57]
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57] Filetype: PDF
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:42 -04-30] [Job 57] Storing temporary files in
> /var/spool/cups/tmp
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] File contains 1 pages
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] Starting renderer with command: gs
> -dFirstPage=1 -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -dNOINTERPOLATE
> -sDEVICE=bjccmyk -sPrinterType=BJC-250 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612
> -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792 -r180x180 -sFeeder=Auto -sQuality=Normal
> -dInverse=false -dSmooth=false -dCompress=true -dComposeK=false
> -dLimitCheck=false -dPaperRed=255 -dPaperGreen=255 -dPaperBlue=255
> -dRedGamma=1.0 -dGreenGamma=1.0 -dBlueGamma=1.0 -dGamma=1.0 -dRandom=15
> -sOutputFile=- /var/spool/cups/tmp/foomatic-WeJjFP
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] Starting process "kid3" (generation 1)
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] Starting process "kid4" (generation 2)
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] Starting process "renderer"
> (generation 2)
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] JCL: 2345X@PJL
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] <job data>
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57]
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] renderer received signal 11
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] [Job 57] Kid3 exit status: 1
> D [12/Jun/2013:20:40:43 -04-30] PID 10226 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip)
> stopped with status 9.
11 aka Coredump
Could you try the step here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems
Thanks
>
> It happens on ALL of my Wheezy installs (ranging from that old Pentium MMX-225
> box all the way up to a Sandy Bridge i5 laptop). My only workaround is to use
> the Gutenprint driver, which not only is slower, but harder to set up and
> getting good print quality from that one is not exactly straightforward, unlike
> with bjc250gs.
>
> Trying to find documentation or useful resources online with foomatic-related
> errors it's like a shot in the dark, because there is nothing clear, just
> dozens and dozens of users with the same error, but on different printer/driver
> combinations, none of those apply to my case.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=es_VE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_VE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages foomatic-filters depends on:
> ii bash 4.2+dfsg-0.1
> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49
> ii libc6 2.13-38
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1
> ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3
>
> Versions of packages foomatic-filters recommends:
> ii colord 0.1.21-1
> ii cups 1.5.3-5
> ii cups-bsd [lpr] 1.5.3-5
> ii cups-client 1.5.3-5
> ii foomatic-db-engine 4.0.8-3
> ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-6.3
> ii poppler-utils 0.18.4-6
>
> foomatic-filters suggests no packages.
>
> -- debconf information:
> foomatic-filters/ps_accounting: true
> foomatic-filters/custom_textfilter:
> foomatic-filters/title:
> foomatic-filters/config_parsed: true
> foomatic-filters/spooler: cups
> foomatic-filters/textfilter: Automagic
> foomatic-filters/filter_debug: false
>
>
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