[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#661992: cups: Invoking of GS fails or printing fails shortly after this

[Holger Freyther]

Package: cups
Version: 1.5.2-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the list of open bugs is quite bug, I tried to find my issue but
didn't see it in the end. I have a Samsung ML-1630 printer, i use
it with the splix packages of debian. When I am printing German
DHL labels (dhl.de) with their Java applet, sometimes I don't get
anything printed (and the label can only be printed once/asked to
be reset five times). When printing I see gs starting up but quitting
quite early, the log files don't include anything about it (my main
concern here).

Logs:
==> cups/access_log <==
localhost - - [03/Mar/2012:11:21:48 +0100] "POST /printers/ML-1630-Series HTTP/1.1" 200 369 Create-Job successful-ok
localhost - - [03/Mar/2012:11:21:48 +0100] "POST /printers/ML-1630-Series HTTP/1.1" 200 1302862 Send-Document successful-ok

==> cups/page_log <==
ML-1630-Series ich 608 [03/Mar/2012:11:21:53 +0100] 1 1 - localhost DHL-Marke-1-HRM9KRRHYB - -

nothing is written to cups/error_log

Question:
How can I see the invocation of gs? Is somebody logging the exit status?
How can I figure out if the issue is with cups? the PS->PDF where gs is
used for? the Splix? backend?

holger




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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu1
ii  bc                     1.06.95-2
ii  cups-client            1.5.2-5
ii  cups-common            1.5.2-5
ii  cups-filters           1.0.2-1
ii  cups-ppdc              1.5.2-5
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  dpkg                   1.16.1.2
ii  ghostscript            9.05~dfsg-2
ii  libavahi-client3       0.6.30-6
ii  libavahi-common3       0.6.30-6
ii  libc6                  2.13-27
ii  libcups2               1.5.2-5
ii  libcupscgi1            1.5.2-5
ii  libcupsimage2          1.5.2-5
ii  libcupsmime1           1.5.2-5
ii  libcupsppdc1           1.5.2-5
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.18-1
ii  libgcc1                1:4.6.2-16
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.16-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10+dfsg~beta1-2
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.28-1.1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7
ii  libpaper1              1.1.24+nmu1
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-9
ii  libstdc++6             4.6.2-16
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.9~rc3-3
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28.1
ii  poppler-utils          0.16.7-3
ii  procps                 1:3.3.2-3
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.28

Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon                                        0.6.30-6
ii  colord                                              0.1.16-2
ii  cups-driver-gutenprint                              5.2.7-5
ii  foomatic-filters                                    4.0.12-1
ii  ghostscript-cups                                    9.05~dfsg-2
ii  printer-driver-gutenprint [cups-driver-gutenprint]  5.2.7-5

Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii  cups-bsd                                   1.5.2-5
ii  cups-pdf                                   <none>
ii  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db]  20120212-1
ii  hplip                                      3.12.2-1
ii  smbclient                                  2:3.6.3-1
ii  udev                                       175-3.1

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