Bug#631859: cups: PDF files no longer prints

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

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Hello Steinar,

Thank you for your report.


On Mon 27 Jun 2011 at 23:01:53 +0200, Steinar Bang wrote:

> The http://somemachine:631/printers/hpulf page currently holds 9 jobs,
> that are all PDF files, and all have the State:
>  stopped 
>  "May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)"
> 
> All of them have been printed from Acroread in Windows Vista, using IPP.
> 
> The printer is an HP 2550L ColorLaserJet with PostScript (actually: ghostscript).

[Most of error_log snipped]

> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] Running /usr/bin/pdftops  -level3 -origpagesizes /var/spool/cups/tmp/pdftops.raZCfE -
> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] Running pstops '1670' 'tlf@DE-BE-20-52-41-53' 'Tilleggsopplysninger.pdf' '1' ' document-name=Tilleggsopplysninger.pdf job-uuid=urn:uuid:3e92a346-37ef-341e-6a2b-64f5b43eff46 job-originating-host-name=10.10.10.10'
> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] Error: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] Error: Couldn't read xref table
> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] Cannot process "<STDIN>": Unknown filetype.
> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] Process is dying with "Could not print file <STDIN>
> D [26/Jun/2011:20:44:41 +0200] [Job 1670] ", exit stat 2

A problem within the cups filtering system at that time springs to mind.
Things have moved since then, so does the issue still occur on testing or
unstable? Or perhaps the problem disappeared soon after you first observed
it? Please let us know.

Regards,

Brian.