[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#524201: cups dies upon printing *any* document

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

Package: cups
Version: 1.3.9-17
Severity: grave

It seems that this is related to calling pstopdf from the cups package

D [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] [Job 689] pstopdf 6 args: 689 sonne document XRColorDensityCyanHigh=0 XRRGBCorrection=Perceptual noXRTonerSaver XRBrightness=Normal XRColorDensityYellowHigh=0 XRRGBBCor
rection=Off XRColorDensityMagentaLow=0 Smoothing XRSubPaperSelection=SMH XRCustomPageSizeCorrection MediaType=Stationary XRColorDensityBlackMid=0 XROutputMode=HighQuality XRColorDensityYellowMid=0 XRColorDensityCyanMid=0 XRColorTemperatu
re=TemperatureD65 XREngineScreen=Auto PageSize=A4 XRRGBInputProfile=SRGB XRColorDensityMagentaHigh=0 XRColorDensityBlackHigh=0 noXRSaveBlankSheet number-up=1 XRColorDensityMagentaMid=0 XRGrayBalance XRColorBalanceAdjustment XRRGBImageTyp
e=Standard XRMSILeadingEdge=ShortEdge XRSlipSheetTray=OFF Duplex=DuplexNoTumble XRHalftoneMode InputSlot=1stTray XRColorDensityBlackLow=0 XRColorMode=Color XRColorDensityCyanLow=0 noXRSlipSheetPrint XRColorDensityYellowLow=0 job-uuid=urn
:uuid:39022e6c-04a4-38f2-40fe-c81af70207c5 fitplot /var/spool/cups/d00689-001
[...]
D [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] [Job 689] Running cat | /usr/bin/ps2pdf13 -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dAutoFilterColorImages=false                -dNOPLATFONTS -dPARANOIDSAFER -sstdout=%stderr -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode                -
dDoNumCopies -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -r600 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 - -
d [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] cupsdDoSelect: polling 4 fds for 1 seconds...
d [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] cupsdDoSelect: epoll() returned -1...
d [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] cupsdDoSelect: polling 4 fds for 1 seconds...
d [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] cupsdDoSelect: poll() returned -1...
X [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] cupsdDoSelect() failed - Success!
[...]
E [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] Scheduler shutting down due to program error.
d [15/Apr/2009:14:41:38 +0200] cupsdAddEvent(event=server-stopped, dest=(nil)(), job=(nil)(0), text="Scheduler shutting down due to program error.", ...)


a downgrade to cups/cupsys from stable gets printing back to work.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser              3.110               add and remove users and groups
ii  cups-common          1.3.9-17            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0 1.5.26              Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript          8.64~dfsg-1         The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-compat-libd 0.6.24-3            Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility 
ii  libc6                2.9-7               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcups2             1.3.9-17            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2        1.3.9-17            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.2.12-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls26          2.6.5-1             the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53             1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 Transitional library package/krb4 
ii  libldap-2.4-2        2.4.15-1            OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g             1.0.1-9             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1            1.1.23+nmu1         library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1              1.2.1-7.5           OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base             3.2-22              Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules         5.10.0-19           Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf- 0.10.5-1            PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps               1:3.2.7-11          /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert             1.0.23              simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-utils               <none>         (no description available)
ii  cups-client               1.3.9-17       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090311-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  smbclient                 2:3.3.3-1      command-line SMB/CIFS clients for 

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                  1.3.9-17       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint    <none>         (no description available)
pn  cups-pdf                  <none>         (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db               20090301-2     OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine        4.0-20090301-1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
pn  hplip                     <none>         (no description available)
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japane <none>         (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded