Re: `Filter failed' no print error message

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina [2017-03-07 15:41:54Z] wrote:
>
>> Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be
>> configured. But it does not print, and, when I get into `jobs', I see
>> they are stopped with "Filter failed" claim. What can I do? Please
>> help. Thanks.
>
> I had a "filter failed" problem too in Debian 8 and solved it by
> installing newer ghostscript package from Debian testing. This bug
> report looks familiar:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848876
>
> In case you want to try that and you are using Debian 8 you could
> proceed with this:
>
>  1. Add Debian testing repository to /etc/apt/sources.list file:
>
>         deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
>
>  2. Run: apt update
>
>  3. Run: apt install ghostscript/testing
>
>  4. Remove the "deb" line from sources.list file.
>
>  5. Run: apt update

Thanks for your suggestion, but ghostscript is already installed in
my system, which is Sid...  So I don't think testing woul do do any better...

Rodolfo