cups/gutenprint/ghostscript problem--printing died on upgrade
Hi all,
After 2 weeks vacation I updated my Sid system as usual, about one week
ago. Since then I have had problems with printing which I have tried
to narrow down by upping the logging in CUPS. I have both an hp 1200
and an epson 300 on the machine, and both die most of the time that I
am trying to print a document (I can't yet tell what is different about
the ones that _do_ print...).
Additionally the Gimp no longer has a print choice in its menu. This
would seem to be related to the upgrade of gimpprint 4.2.7 to gutenprint
5.something (which I am glad to see, but...).
The CUPS log consistently shows a Ghostscript error:
daddy:~# grep -A 10 Error /var/log/cups/error_log
D [07/Aug/2005:13:58:00 -0700] [Job 1822] ESP Ghostscript 815.00: Error: Font Renderer Plugin ( FreeType ) return code = -1
D [07/Aug/2005:13:58:00 -0700] [Job 1822] FAPIhook NimbusRomNo9L-Regu
D [07/Aug/2005:13:58:00 -0700] [Job 1822] FAPIhook is in .loadfont context for the font Font NimbusRomNo9L-Regu.
D [07/Aug/2005:13:58:00 -0700] [Job 1822] Trying to render the font Font NimbusRomNo9L-Regu with FAPI...
D [07/Aug/2005:13:58:00 -0700] [Job 1822] FAPIhook Times-Roman
D [07/Aug/2005:13:58:00 -0700] [Job 1822] PathLoad known for the font Error: /invalidfont in -dict-
...
D [07/Aug/2005:13:58:00 -0700] [Job 1822] ESP Ghostscript 815.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
E [07/Aug/2005:13:58:00 -0700] PID 24899 stopped with status 1!
None of the packages I have installed releateed to this had any grave
errors associated with them. These include
cupsys-driver-gutenprint libgimpprint1 libgutenprintui2-1
libgutenprint2 ijsgutenprint gs-esp gimp-print libfreetype6
as well as others.
Can anyone give me some help how I might narrow this down?
Many thanks,
Kenward
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