[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#575798: cups: cannot print from gedit and evince

[Thomas Neugebauer]

Package: cups
Version: 1.4.2-4
Severity: important

When printing from gtk applications like gedit, evince, or gimp cups reports the following errors in /var/log/cups/error_log

E [29/Mar/2010:10:53:24 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 14 IPP Read Error!
E [29/Mar/2010:10:54:59 +0200] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv"!
E [29/Mar/2010:10:55:01 +0200] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information file "/usr/share/cups/drv/sample.drv"!

Nothing is printed. We tried different printers on LAN and USB. (HP Laserjet P3005dn, Epson Stylus DX6000)
We are able to print from non gtk applications and succeeded in printing using the gutenprint plugin for GIMP. Printing from gvim is possible too.

If this is considered to be a gtk bug, please move this to the corresponding bugsection.

regards

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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            1.4.2-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  cups-common            1.4.2-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.28            Debian configuration management sy
ii  ghostscript            8.71~dfsg-2       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                  2.10.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcups2               1.4.2-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupscgi1            1.4.2-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsdriver1         1.4.2-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsimage2          1.4.2-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsmime1           1.4.2-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.4.2-4           Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.20-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.2-9         GCC support library
ii  libgnutls26            2.8.5-2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libijs-0.35            0.35-7            IJS raster image transport protoco
ii  libkrb5-3              1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.17-2.1        OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g               1.1.1-2           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1              1.1.23+nmu2       library for handling paper charact
ii  libpoppler5            0.12.2-2          PDF rendering library
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-7.6         OpenSLP libraries
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.2-9           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4           2:0.1.12-14       userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules           5.10.1-11         Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils          0.12.2-2          PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                 1:3.2.8-8         /proc file system utilities
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.25            simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii  ttf-freefont           20090104-5        Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  cups-driver-gutenprint    <none>         (no description available)
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
pn  ghostscript-cups          <none>         (no description available)

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                      1.4.2-4    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
pn  cups-pdf                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  cups-ppdc                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  foomatic-db-engine            <none>     (no description available)
ii  hplip                         3.10.2-1   HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
pn  smbclient                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  udev                          151-3      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none>     (no description available)

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