[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#662780: cups: new version causes printer to hang for ages, then only print a blank page

Julian Gilbey jdg at debian.org
Thu May 17 16:01:29 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:14:45PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Julian, Anders and Brian,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 15.03.2012, 17:55 +0000 schrieb Julian Gilbey:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 04:28:05PM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> 
> > > cups 1.5.2-8 fixes LP #951627 and has entered unstable. Hopefully you
> > > will be able to say it addresses your problem too.
> 
> I think I experienced that problem today with `cups` 1.5.2-11 and
> cups-filter 1.0.16-2 and 1.0.18-1.
> 
> Although when printed to PDF from the GNOME printing dialog the file
> with the image is just 400 kB big, the print job took forever. Looking
> at the system usage (`htop`, `ps aux | grep gs`), the Ghostscript
> process used 100 % of the CPU.
> [...]
> 
> Do you still experience this problem or is this fixed for you and I
> should open a separate report?

I'm still waiting for cups-filter 1.0.16 to enter testing before I try
it out.

   Julian





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