[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#370871: cupsys: Upgrade to 1.2 broke printing on local parallel GDI printer

[Shai Berger]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.1-2
Severity: important


Since the upgrade to cupsys 1.2, I cannot print. lpq reports
the printer as "not ready", and the cupsys web interface
shows it as:
  	
Xerox (Default Printer) "/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel failed"
	Description: GENERIC GDI Printer gdi
Location:
Make and Model: Generic GDI Printer Foomatic/gdi
Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0

Starting the printer reports success and makes it "idle"; printing
anything fails and sends it back to "stopped".

With 1.2.1-1, I could get the "/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel failed"
message to change to something like "/dev/lp0: permission denied",
but I can't seem to reproduce this now with 1.2.1-2. This message
made no sense to me, as cupsd runs as root, and so has permissions
to read and write lp0.

Trying to print a test page from the web interface gives me a

Error:

    Quota limit reached.

message, which makes no sense, as I've never set any quotas.

I've checked that the printer and physical connection to it are
ok by (booting into and) printing from a different OS.

I suspect some of my woes are related to upstream bug #1738
(http://cups.org/str.php?L1738+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+Q1738), but
it seems like there is more at stake.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.87            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.1           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libacl1                  2.2.37-1        Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.1-2         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.1-2         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-2              0.61-6          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.3.5-1.1       the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.17          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-10          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-5         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.6-2.2     /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-8          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-11      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.2.1-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.22-1         a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/browse: true
* cupsys/ports: 631
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
* cupsys/portserror: