[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#460624: cupsys: fails to print pdf (/usr/bin/pdftops exited with exit code 1)

Leonardo Cosmai leonardo.cosmai at ngi.it
Mon Jan 14 08:49:48 UTC 2008


Package: cupsys
Version: 1.3.5-1
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss


Here is the log from cups:

D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] pdftops version 3.00
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] Usage: pdftops [options] <PDF-file> [<PS-file>]
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -f <int>            : first page to print
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -l <int>            : last page to print
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -level1             : generate Level 1 PostScript
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -level1sep          : generate Level 1 separable PostScript
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -level2             : generate Level 2 PostScript
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -level2sep          : generate Level 2 separable PostScript
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -level3             : generate Level 3 PostScript
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -level3sep          : generate Level 3 separable PostScript
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -eps                : generate Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -form               : generate a PostScript form
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -opi                : generate OPI comments
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -noembt1            : don't embed Type 1 fonts
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -noembtt            : don't embed TrueType fonts
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -noembcidps         : don't embed CID PostScript fonts
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -noembcidtt         : don't embed CID TrueType fonts
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -preload            : preload images and forms
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -paper <string>     : paper size (letter, legal, A4, A3, match)
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -paperw <int>       : paper width, in points
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -paperh <int>       : paper height, in points
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -nocrop             : don't crop pages to CropBox
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -expand             : expand pages smaller than the paper size
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -noshrink           : don't shrink pages larger than the paper size
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -nocenter           : don't center pages smaller than the paper size
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -duplex             : enable duplex printing
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -opw <string>       : owner password (for encrypted files)
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -upw <string>       : user password (for encrypted files)
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -q                  : don't print any messages or errors
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -v                  : print copyright and version info
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -h                  : print usage information
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -help               : print usage information
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] --help              : print usage information
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] -?                  : print usage information
E [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] /usr/bin/pdftops exited with  exit code 1
D [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
E [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] PID 8377 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) stopped with status 1!
E [11/Jan/2008:12:04:29 +0100] [Job 757] Empty print file!


If I delete from pdftops the -cfg parameter, the pdf is printed!!!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser               3.105              add and remove users and groups
ii  cupsys-common         1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.17             Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                8.15.3.dfsg.1-1    The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libavahi-compat-libdn 0.6.21-4           Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                 2.7-5              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2         1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2            1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3           1.1.2-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13           2.0.4-1            the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2              2.1.30.dfsg-13.5   OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g              0.99.7.1-5         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1             1.1.23             library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1               1.2.1-6.2          OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.1-24             Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  perl-modules          5.8.8-12           Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf-u 0.6.2-1            PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                1:3.2.7-5          /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert              1.0.14             Simple debconf wrapper for openssl

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
pn  avahi-utils           <none>             (no description available)
ii  cupsys-client         1.3.5-1            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient             3.0.28-1           a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd





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