Printer not getting any data from cups

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Subject: Printer not getting any data from cups
From: Christian Riedel <sarek@nurfuerspam.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:54:08 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] c6hj36$2l3$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

after the last upgrade (from Saturday or so) I cannot print any more. Iuse cups on a current debian/sid system.

The problem is: I send a print job (for example a2ps /etc/fstab - thesame with lpr /etc/fstab), cups does not give any error message, the webinterface shows that the job was completed, but the printer does not getany data. The symptoms are pretty much like in bug #240792 although indebug mode I dont see the DATA part as in the bugreport:

D [29/Mar/2004:11:23:59 +0200] [Job 266] Saw EOF!
D [29/Mar/2004:11:23:59 +0200] [Job 266] DATA: <1B>%-12345X
D [29/Mar/2004:11:24:00 +0200] [Job 266] DATA: %%[ ProductName: hp LaserJet 4300 ]%%<0D><0A>

The printer is a brother HL-1260e attached to the parallel port usingthe foomatic driver. (This configuration worked fine until a few daysago). I even tried the ppd supplied by Brother, but no change there!

I am pretty clueless. Does anyone know how to help me? I spent the wholeday trying to figure out what's wrong here. But no luck so far


TIA

	Christian

P.S: I attached the debug messages from /var/log/cups/error_log for thelast test print I tried (sorry, the output is quite long):

I [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] Adding start banner page "none" to job 318.
I [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] Adding end banner page "none" to job 318.
I [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] Job 318 queued on 'laser' by 'root'.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] Job 318 hold_until = 0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob(318, 0x829ca28)
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob() id = 318, file = 0/1
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] job-sheets=none,none
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] banner_page = 0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: argv = "laser","318","root","fstab","1","","/var/spool/cups/d00318-001"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[0]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[1]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[2]="USER=root"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[3]="CHARSET=iso-8859-15"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[4]="LANG=de"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[5]="TZ=Europe/Berlin"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[6]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/laser.ppd"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[7]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[8]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[9]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[10]="CONTENT_TYPE=text/plain"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[11]="DEVICE_URI=parallel:/dev/lp0"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[12]="PRINTER=laser"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[13]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[14]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[15]="CUPS_SERVER=localhost"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: envp[16]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: statusfds = [ 7 9 ]
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 10 -1 ]
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 11 12 ]
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops", 0xbffefbe0, 0xbffeef50, 10, 12, 9)
I [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 12766) for job 318.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 10 13 ]
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops", 0xbffefbe0, 0xbffeef50, 11, 13, 9)
I [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 12767) for job 318.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 11 12 ]
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip", 0xbffefbe0, 0xbffeef50, 10, 12, 9)
I [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 12768) for job 318.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ -1 10 ]
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel", 0xbffefbe0, 0xbffeef50, 11, 10, 9)
I [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 12769) for job 318.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Page = 595x842; 0,0 to 595,842
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->num_fonts = 35
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[0] = AvantGarde-Book
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[1] = AvantGarde-BookOblique
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[2] = AvantGarde-Demi
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[3] = AvantGarde-DemiOblique
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[4] = Bookman-Demi
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[5] = Bookman-DemiItalic
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[6] = Bookman-Light
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[7] = Bookman-LightItalic
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[8] = Courier
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[9] = Courier-Bold
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->num_fonts = 35
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[0] = AvantGarde-Book
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[1] = AvantGarde-BookOblique
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[2] = AvantGarde-Demi
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[3] = AvantGarde-DemiOblique
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[4] = Bookman-Demi
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[5] = Bookman-DemiItalic
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[6] = Bookman-Light
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[7] = Bookman-LightItalic
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ppd->fonts[8] = Courier
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Page = 595x842; 0,0 to 595,842
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] slowcollate=0, slowduplex=0, sloworder=0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%Creator: texttops/CUPS v1.1.21rc1
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%CreationDate: Mon Apr 26 01:26:40 2004
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%Title: fstab
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%For: root
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%Pages: (atend)
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Courier-Bold
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%+ font Courier
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset texttops 1.1 0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%+ font Courier-Bold
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%+ font Courier
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%EndComments
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%BeginProlog
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%BeginResource: font Courier-Bold
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%CreationDate: Wed Dec 22 1999
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LANGUAGE = (unset),
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LC_ALL = (unset),
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LANG = "de"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] are supported and installed on your system.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] CloseClient: 6
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] foomatic-rip version $Revision: 3.43.2.2 $ running...
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Parsing PPD file ...
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option ColorSpace
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option PageSize
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option PageRegion
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option ImageableArea
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option PaperDimension
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option InputSlot
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option Resolution
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option Dithering
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Added option Font

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Parameter Summary

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] -----------------

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Spooler: cups

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Printer: laser
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] PPD file: /etc/cups/ppd/laser.ppd
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Printer model: Brother HL-1260 Foomatic/ljet4
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Job title: fstab

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] File(s) to be printed:D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] <STDIN>D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ================================================D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] File: <STDIN>D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ================================================D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Reading PostScript input ...

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] --> This document is DSC-conforming!

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] -----------

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %%BeginProlog
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%EndResource
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%BeginResource: font Courier
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%CreationDate: Wed Dec 22 1999
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%EndResource
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%BeginResource: procset texttops 1.1 0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%EndResource
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%EndProlog
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%Page: 1 1
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%Page: 1 1
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] pw = 595.0, pl = 842.0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] PageLeft = 0.0, PageRight = 595.0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] PageTop = 842.0, PageBottom = 0.0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] PageWidth = 595.0, PageLength = 842.0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] 0 %%Trailer
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Saw Trailer!
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Saw EOF!
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %%EndProlog

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] -----------

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %%BeginSetup
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Inserting PostScript code for CUPS' page accounting
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %%BeginFeature: *Dithering FSDithered
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Option: Dithering=FSDithered --> Setting option
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: Dithering=FSDithered
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Option: Dithering=FSDithered --> Setting option
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %%BeginFeature: *InputSlot Default
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Option: InputSlot=Default --> Setting option
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %% FoomaticRIPOptionSetting: InputSlot=Default
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Option: InputSlot=Default --> Setting option
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %%BeginFeature: *PageRegion A4
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Option: PageRegion=A4 --> Option will be set by PostScript interpreter
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %%BeginFeature: *Resolution 600x600dpi
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Option: Resolution=600x600dpi --> Option will be set by PostScript interpreter
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Found: %%EndSetup

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] -----------

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] New page:  1 1
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Inserting option code into "PageSetup" section.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] No page header or page header not DSC-conforming
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Flushing FIFO.

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Starting rendererD [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] JCL: <job data>D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] renderer PID kid4=12771

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=lj4dith -sOutputFile=- - | perl -e "while (\$line = <>) { my \$b = \"\"; \$match |= ( \$line =~ s/\x1b&l\d+A/\$&\$b/ ); \$line =~ s/\x1b&l0H/\$b/g; print \$line }"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LANGUAGE = (unset),
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LC_ALL = (unset),
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LANG = "de"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] are supported and installed on your system.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=lj4dith' '-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-07-12)
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Copyright 2003 artofcode LLC and Easy Software Products, all rights reserved.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] Closing renderer

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LANGUAGE = (unset),
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LC_ALL = (unset),
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] LANG = "de"
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] are supported and installed on your system.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:40 +0200] [Job 318] perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318] KID3 exited with status 0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318] tail process done writing data to STDOUT
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318] KID4 finished
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318] KID4 exited with status 0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318] Renderer exit stat: 0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318] KID3 finished
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318] Renderer process finished

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318]D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:43 +0200] [Job 318] Closing foomatic-rip.

D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:45 +0200] UpdateJob: job 318, file 0 is complete.
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:45 +0200] CancelJob: id = 318
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:45 +0200] StopJob: id = 318, force = 0
D [26/Apr/2004:01:26:45 +0200] StopJob: printer state is 3


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