[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#441221: get postscript error when printing

[Brent S. Elmer, Ph.D.]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.3.0-3
Severity: serious

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Sometime recently printing started failing.  I get the following error in cups_error:

E [07/Sep/2007:09:19:17 -0400] [Job 584] pdpr: 5010-606 The value postscript that was specified or defaulted for attribute document-format is not supported by the destination or by any of its associated actual destinations.

I keep my lenny system updated regularly and I remember recently upgrading cupsys.  I don't print
that often so I don't know if the failures started with the cupsys upgrade or not.  I do know that the same
print setup works on another lenny box I have that I haven't done the cups upgrade on.  The lenny box that still 
works is at cupsys 1.2.11-3.  My printer is a network printer with device: IBM Infoprint Manager and the and the device URI 
uses ipselect.  This setup used to work and and still does work with backlevel packages on another lenny box.  I am not 
sure if the problem is due to the cupsys upgrade or gs or what.  Applications that used to print but are now giving the error are
galeon, Iceweasel, Evince, Lotus Notes under wine, ...  The strange thing is that printing a test page from the cups 
administration page in my browser does print.  So, it would seem that the postscript that is generated might be the problem 
but I don't know how to figure out where the problem is.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.18.070905

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 testing         www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 testing         olymp.hursley.ibm.com 
  500 testing         debian.linux.ibm.com 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                                   (Version) | Installed
===================================================-+-======================
libavahi-compat-libdnssd1               (>= 0.6.13) | 0.6.21-1
libc6                                    (>= 2.6-1) | 2.6.1-1+b1
libcomerr2                              (>= 1.33-3) | 1.40.2-1
libcupsimage2                            (>= 1.3.0) | 1.3.0-3
libcupsys2                               (>= 1.3.0) | 1.3.0-3
libdbus-1-3                              (>= 1.1.1) | 1.1.1-3
libgnutls13                            (>= 1.6.3-0) | 1.6.3-1
libkrb53                            (>= 1.6.dfsg.1) | 1.6.dfsg.1-6
libldap2                              (>= 2.1.17-1) | 2.1.30-13.4
libpam0g                                  (>= 0.76) | 0.79-4
libpaper1                                           | 1.1.22
libslp1                                             | 1.2.1-6.2
zlib1g                        (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1) | 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5
debconf                                 (>= 1.2.9)  | 1.5.14
 OR debconf-2.0                                     | 
poppler-utils                                       | 
 OR xpdf-utils                                      | 3.02-1.1
perl-modules                                        | 5.8.8-7
procps                                              | 1:3.2.7-4
gs-esp                                              | 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1
 OR ghostscript                                     | 
lsb-base                                     (>= 3) | 3.1-24
cupsys-common                                       | 1.3.0-3
ssl-cert                                (>= 1.0.11) | 1.0.14
adduser                                             | 3.104