[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#372782: cupsys: Printing system is completely inoperable with latest CUPS (1.2)

[Kenward Vaughan]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.1-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


This has a problem since around the time that 1.2 became available, I believe 
(about 1-2 weeks?).  My printers do not work, period.  I have an Epson R300 
(usb) and an HP 1200 (parallel). They worked perfectly well until a recent 
upgrade.

CUPS cannot properly ID either one now (with or w/o the hplip/hpijs 
packages). Manual tweaking of the printers.conf file fails too.  There is
little in the error log suggesting a solution.  The current one is 
horrifically long, but includes only some of the stuff I have tried. 



With all printers deleted, see nothing under Admin page.
Turn on Epson (usb), see:

New Printers Found:

    * Add This Printer EPSON Stylus Photo R300 (EPSON Stylus Photo R300 LPT #1)
    * Add This Printer CANON (Parallel Port #1)
    * Add This Printer EPSON (Parallel Port #1)

Chose 1st, get default gimpprint beta2 driver
Get 

"Filter "rastertogimpprint.5.0" for printer "EPSON_Stylus_Photo_R300_LPT_1" not available: No such file or directory"

on return to printer page. Other driver (gutenprint rc3) gives same result.

Linking this to rastertogutenprint.5.0 failed to help.  Consistently get

	Unsupported format 'application/postscript'!

The original URI for the Epson was /dev/lp0, which is absurd for a usb printer.
I tweaked the printers.conf file to read /dev/.static/dev/usb/lp0  since that 
is where I could find it.  No help.



Trying to add HP 1200... HP stuff (hplip, etc) don't even see the printer.
Using the "CANON" tagged printer, set up using the standard ppd file from 
hp (the NT one, which I've always used).  Directly edited the printers.conf
file to use either hp:/dev/lp0 or parallel:/dev/lp0.

The 1st gives a processing msg. which slides over to a 
	"open device failed; will retry in 30 seconds..."
message after 30-60 seconds.

The parallel choice gives a superficially working CUPS (printing a test page
gives abosolutely no errors) but there is no printout.  The printer doesn't 
blink...

Noted the permissions of lp0 and tried changing them:

hpotter:/home/daddy# ls -l /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 2006-06-11 02:52 /dev/lp0
hpotter:/home/daddy# chmod 0666 /dev/lp0
hpotter:/home/daddy# ls -l /dev/lp0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root lp 180, 0 2006-06-11 02:52 /dev/lp0


Didn't work.

I have no clue what to do, folks.  I need a working system, though.

The list of packages below leaves out the hpijs/hplip/foomatic-db-(hpijs/gutenprint)
packages I have installed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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                    2.3.6-15        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                1.1.18          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 
pn  smbclient               <none>           (no description available)

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