[cups.general] foomatic wrapper error - what's the reason ?

[Sönke Dibbern]

Hi all,
I have a problem with printing from the Opera 7.5 web browser via CUPS on a SuSE 9.1 box. I was able to print a few times, but it's waaay from being reliable. I currently try to determine whether it's a problem with my setup, with Opera or with CUPS. Printing from other applications like Open Office and from command line works quite well, so basically the setup seems to be ok.

I enabled debug logging for CUPS, and that gave me two different errors. I wasn't able to determine which actions on the Opera end would trigger which error.

Error #1 is: "Error: /syntaxerror in --%ztokenexec_continue--"
Error #2 is: "Error: /undefined in MFEmb"

I searched all documentation I could find & the web, but I'm still not able to read something out of these error messages. Can please someone help me with this (or point me into a direction where I can find this infornmation) ? Below I've added some of the context of the error_log, I hope it's enough.

Regards, SD




Here's some of the context of #1:

#---------------------------------- Start context #1
New page:  1 1
Inserting option code into "PageSetup" section.

Found: %%BeginPageSetup
Found: %%EndPageSetup
End of page header
Flushing FIFO.

Starting renderer
JCL: <job data>

renderer PID kid4=8363
renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="DESKJET 540" -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -r300 -sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=0 -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=- -

<b>foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ijs' '-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD' '-sDeviceModel=DESKJET 540' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595' '-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842' '-r300' '-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=0' '-dIjsUseOutputFD' '-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2</b>

Closing renderer
Error: /syntaxerror in --%ztokenexec_continue--
Operand stack:
R   --nostringval--
Execution stack:
interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1066/1417(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:128/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
renderer return value: 1
renderer received signal: 1
tail process done writing data to STDOUT
KID4 finished
KID4 exited with status 0
KID3 exited with status 3
# --------------------------------- End context #1


Here's nearly the same for #2:

#---------------------------------- Start context #2
renderer PID kid4=8159
renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="DESKJET 540" -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -r300 -sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=0 -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=- -

foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ijs' '-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD' '-sDeviceModel=DESKJET 540' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595' '-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842' '-r300' '-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=0' '-dIjsUseOutputFD' '-sOutputFile=| cat >&3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2

Error: /undefined in MFEmb
Operand stack:
TimesNewRomanPSMT-Uni-00   --nostringval--   TimesNewRomanPSMT
Execution stack:
%interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1066/1417(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:138/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
renderer return value: 1
renderer received signal: 1
tail process done writing data to STDOUT
KID4 finished
Process dying with "Possible error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check options.", exit stat: 3
Possible error on renderer command line or PostScript error. Check options.
Saw EOF!

Closing renderer
KID4 exited with status 0
KID3 exited with status 3
Renderer exit stat: 3
#----------------------------------- End context #2