[cups.general] renderer error

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm getting the same problem (notice the renderer command is empty), on
Debian sid, with an Epson stylus color 740, using the foomatic-gimpprint driver. here is my log:
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3] Starting renderer
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3] JCL: <job data>
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3]
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3] renderer PID kid4=31236
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3] renderer command:
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3] renderer return value: 255
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3] renderer received signal: 255
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3] tail process done writing data to STDOUT
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:49 +0200] [Job 3] KID4 finished
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] AcceptClient: 6 from localhost:631.
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] ReadClient: 6 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] CloseClient: 6
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] AcceptClient: 6 from localhost:631.
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] ReadClient: 6 POST /classes/ HTTP/1.1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] AcceptClient: 9 from localhost:631.
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] CloseClient: 6
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] ReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] ProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:50 +0200] CloseClient: 9
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:51 +0200] [Job 3]
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:51 +0200] [Job 3] Closing renderer
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:51 +0200] [Job 3] KID4 exited with status 0
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:51 +0200] [Job 3] KID3 exited with status 1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:51 +0200] [Job 3] Renderer exit stat: 1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:51 +0200] [Job 3] Process dying with "The renderer commandline returned an unrecognized error code 255.", exit stat: 1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:51 +0200] [Job 3] The renderer command line returned an unrecognized error code 255.
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:52 +0200] [Job 3] Renderer process finished
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:52 +0200] [Job 3] Killing process 31235 (KID3)
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:52 +0200] [Job 3] Process dying with "Error closing renderer", exit stat: 1
D [20/Nov/2004:16:35:52 +0200] [Job 3] Error closing renderer
E [20/Nov/2004:16:35:52 +0200] PID 31232 stopped with status 1!


Lawrence Oluyede wrote:
> I'm trying to configure the printer on Gentoo Linux following the
> Gentoo Printing Guide
> (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml). The printer seems
> to work at low level (cat foo > /dev/lp0) and CUPS seems to be
> installed correctly but when I try to print the test page from the web
> interface I get this error:
>
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] renderer PID kid4=12549
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] renderer command:
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] renderer return value: 255
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] renderer received signal: 255
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Process dying with "The
> renderer command line returned an unrecognized error code 255.", exit
> stat: 1
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] The renderer command line
> returned an unrecognized error code 255.
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2]
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Closing renderer
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] KID3 exited with status 1
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Renderer exit stat: 1
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Renderer process finished
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Killing process 12548 (KID3)
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Process dying with "Error
> closing renderer", exit stat: 1
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Error closing renderer
> E [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] PID 12546 stopped with status 1!
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] tail process done writing data to STDOUT
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] KID4 finished
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] UpdateJob: job 2, file 0 is complete.
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] CancelJob: id = 2
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] StopJob: id = 2, force = 0
> D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] StopJob: printer state is 3
>
> Somebody knows why?
>
> Linux: Gentoo Linux with 2.6.8.1 kernel
> Printer: Epson Stylus Color 640
> Cups: 1.1.21_rc2
> Foomatic: 3.0.1
> (every foomatic package is also installed)
>
> --
> Lawrence
> "If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea."
> from The Zen of Python by Tim Peters
>