[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#650068: cups-pdf: PDF created are all void without error notice

[Eric Lavarde]

Package: cups-pdf
Version: 2.6.1-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hello,

after having migrated from squeeze to wheezy, cups-pdf does only produce
minimal PDF files without any content. I tried different apps
(Iceweasel, LibreOffice) without apparent difference in (bad) behavior.
The PDFs created do only differentiate in terms of IDs and dates/times
else they are completely the same; I'll attach an example.
I have also set the report level to debug and will also attach the
logfile but I don't see anything noticeable.

I'm at loss what to do but currently cups-pdf is not usable at all for
me, hence the high severity.

Thanks, Eric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups-pdf depends on:
ii  cups            1.5.0-12   
ii  cups-client     1.5.0-12   
ii  ghostscript     9.04~dfsg-2
ii  libc6           2.13-21    
ii  libpaper-utils  1.1.24+nmu1

cups-pdf recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-pdf suggests:
pn  system-config-printer-gnome | system-config-printer-kde | system-co  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf changed:
Out ${HOME}/PDF
Label 1
Grp lpadmin
LogType 7


-- no debconf information
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Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] switching to new gid (lpadmin)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] initialization finished (v2.6.1)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] user identified (ericl)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] output directory name generated (/home/ericl/PDF)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] user information prepared
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] spoolfile name created (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27928)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] source stream ready
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] destination stream ready (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27928)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] owner set for spoolfile (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27928)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] using traditional fgets
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] now extracting postscript code
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] all data written to spoolfile (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27928)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] trying to use PS title ()
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] removing trailing newlines from title ()
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] removing special characters from title ()
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] empty PS title, using commandline title (Untitled1)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] removing trailing newlines from title (Untitled1)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] removing special characters from title (Untitled1)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] title successfully retrieved (job_773-Untitled1)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] input data read from stdin
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] output filename created (/home/ericl/PDF/job_773-Untitled1.pdf)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] ghostscript commandline built (/usr/bin/gs -q -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="/home/ericl/PDF/job_773-Untitled1.pdf" -dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -c .setpdfwrite -f /var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27928)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] output file unlinked (/home/ericl/PDF/job_773-Untitled1.pdf)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] TMPDIR set for GhostScript (/var/tmp)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] waiting for child to exit
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] entering child process
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] GID set for current user
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] supplementary groups set for current user
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] UID set for current user (ericl)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] ghostscript has finished (0)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] file mode set for user output (/home/ericl/PDF/job_773-Untitled1.pdf)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] no postprocessing
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] spoolfile unlinked (/var/spool/cups-pdf/SPOOL/cups2pdf-27928)
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [DEBUG] all memory has been freed
Sat Nov 26 08:35:58 2011  [STATUS] PDF creation successfully finished (ericl)
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