[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#586945: cups not printing with HP LaserJet 4 Plus

Lancelot du Lac lancelot at sherka.no-ip.biz
Wed Jun 23 20:12:08 UTC 2010


Package: cups
Version: 1.4.3-1
Severity: important


My printer is a HP laserjet 4 Plus. 
It used to work with the gutenprint drivers pretty much since always.
I don't know when it broke, because I don't use it that often.
I have tried with the generic postscript driver, with the gutenprint
driver, with the j4dith driver and with the hplip driver.
On the other hand cups-pdf still works.

With the gutenprint driver, the "Manage printers" page from the cups web
interface shows that it takes forever to process the task, until it
stops after finishing  processing the last page of the document (the
task was reported as processing during more than 20 minutes starting at 
9:27pm in the example attached; when it finished processing, nothing
happened).

Attached to this message you will find a capture of the manage printers
page from the cups web interface when it stops at the end of processing
the task (here a test page from the cups maintenance menu).
The printer itself shows no visible reaction during or after the
processing of the job.

Using cat somefile.ps > /dev/lp0 still makes the printer start printing
(incorrect) pages, as usual.

Below you will see my /var/log/cups/error_log after trying to print a
test page from the cups maintenance menu for the printer.

*** error_log
E [23/Jun/2010:06:25:10 +0200] [Job 2] Files have gone away!
E [23/Jun/2010:06:25:10 +0200] Missing <Job #> directive on line 14!
E [23/Jun/2010:06:25:10 +0200] Missing <Job #> directive on line 15!
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E [23/Jun/2010:06:25:10 +0200] Missing <Job #> directive on line 20!
E [23/Jun/2010:06:25:10 +0200] Missing <Job #> directive on line 21!
E [23/Jun/2010:21:27:58 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 32394 (scsi) stopped with status 13!
E [23/Jun/2010:21:27:58 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 32396 (parallel) stopped with status 13!
E [23/Jun/2010:21:27:58 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 32390 (snmp) stopped with status 13!
E [23/Jun/2010:21:27:58 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 32388 (socket) stopped with status 13!
E [23/Jun/2010:21:27:58 +0200] [cups-deviced] PID 32389 (beh) stopped with status 13!
E [23/Jun/2010:21:28:31 +0200] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv"!
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112            add and remove users and groups
ii  bc                      1.06.95-2        The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  cups-client             1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-common             1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.32           Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript             8.71~dfsg2-3     The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libavahi-client3        0.6.25-3         Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3        0.6.25-3         Avahi common library
ii  libc6                   2.11.1-3         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2                1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupscgi1             1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsdriver1          1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2           1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsmime1            1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsppdc1            1.4.3-1          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-1        GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26             2.8.6-1          the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2        1.8.1+dfsg-5     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35             0.35-7           IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3               1.8.1+dfsg-5     MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.17-2.1       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                1.1.1-3          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1               1.1.24           library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler5             0.12.4-1         PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1                 1.2.1-7.7        OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-1          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-15      userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules            5.10.1-13        Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils           0.12.4-1         PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                  1:3.2.8-9        /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert                1.0.25           simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont            20090104-7       Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint    5.2.5-1        printer drivers for CUPS
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  ghostscript-cups          8.71~dfsg2-3   The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF

Versions of packages cups suggests:
pn  cups-bsd                <none>           (no description available)
ii  cups-pdf                2.5.0-15         PDF printer for CUPS
pn  cups-ppdc               <none>           (no description available)
ii  foomatic-db             20090616-1       OpenPrinting printer support - dat
ii  foomatic-db-engine      4.0-20090509-2.1 OpenPrinting printer support - pro
pn  hplip                   <none>           (no description available)
pn  smbclient               <none>           (no description available)
ii  udev                    157-1            /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japa <none>           (no description available)

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