On Fri 02 Jun 2017 at 16:38:42 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
I have an HP Color Laserjet CP1215 printer attached to a Jessie server via
USB. I'm trying to print to it from Stretch workstation. This has been
failing for a long time now. It's not a new problem. I've tried removing the
printer and re-finding it many times without success.
We presume the re-finding is done via the CUPS web interface or something
similar. Is cups-browsed running on the client?
systemctl status cups-browsed
I'm using the HP Color LaserJet CP1215 Foomatic/foo2hp (recommended) driver
on both the server and my workstation. However when I try printing anything
from the workstation, it fails with a "Filter failed" message. The message
appears on the CUPS Jobs page on both the workstation and server.
I can print directly from the server (e.g. test page using the CUPS Printers
page or lp from the command line) but not from my workstation.
I can print to another printer (Samsung C410) attached to the server, also
by USB, using the same protocol (dnssd:) and it works. The major difference
is that the it's using the Samsung C410 Series (color) driver.
The cups error log on the server isn't helpful. The first message that it
shows for a failing job is:
E [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Job stopped due to filter errors;
please consult the error_log file for details.
Unfortunately, the code that reports the terminating state of the job
does not have the name of the process that failed, which gets logged
separately.
Further down it shows these interesting messages:
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Printing system options:
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Pondering option
'job-uuid=urn:uuid:33ae3777-92ed-3ade-5cc3-a52464b726bc'
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Unknown option
job-uuid=urn:uuid:33ae3777-92ed-3ade-5cc3-a52464b726bc.
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Pondering option
'job-originating-host-name=192.168.1.24'
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Unknown option
job-originating-host-name=192.168.1.24.
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Pondering option
'time-at-creation=1496427439'
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Unknown option
time-at-creation=1496427439.
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Pondering option
'time-at-processing=1496427439'
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Unknown option
time-at-processing=1496427439.
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] CM Color Calibration Mode in CUPS:
Off
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Options from the PPD file:
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241]
================================================
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] File: /var/spool/cups/d02241-001
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241]
================================================
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Cannot process
"/var/spool/cups/d02241-001": Unknown filetype.
The server has been sent a file by the client which cannot be MIME typed.
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Process is dying with "Could not
print file /var/spool/cups/d02241-001
D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] ", exit stat 2
Any ideas?
The Printing section on the wiki deals with "Double Filtering". It might
help.