Newest ghostscript 8.15 cause printer to stop in cups when using gedit...

[Till Kamppeter]

matthew wrote:
> Hello,
> First of Mike or any admin if this the wrong part of the forum I apologize and also note that I'm almost positive that this a bug in ghostscript.
> 
> NOTE: There is not a problem with ghostscript-7.07.1!
> 
> Moving on...
> My printer stops in cups (UI claims printer stopped) and my document won't print out. I don't have a problem printing in firefox and vim, but if i try in a gnome app like gedit or abiword nothing prints!!!
> 
> I am using a the foomatic bjc-7004 driver but I don't think it is related if it is pleast let me know so I can tell the foomatic people.
> 
> I did a debug2 and I found some info hopefully it useful. Full log here: http://pastebin.com/589831
> 
> What I think is needed is below:

[...]

> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bjc800 -dBitsPerPixel=24 -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -sOutputFile=- -
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=bjc800' '-dBitsPerPixel=24' '-dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] Error: /undefined in --setpagedevice--
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] Operand stack:
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] --dict:6/6(L)--
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] Execution stack:
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] %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   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push --nostringval--   1   3   %oparray_pop   --nostringval--
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] Dictionary stack:
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] --dict:1119/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:106/200(L)--
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] Current allocation mode is local
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] Last OS error: 2
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] ESP Ghostscript 815.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] renderer return value: 1
> #
> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] renderer received signal: 1

[...]

> D [07/Mar/2006:17:23:20 -0500] [Job 1] error: No such file or directory (2)

[...]

Seems that GhostScript is failing for some reason. I tried to execute
the very same GhostScript command line manually (test page of CUPS 1.2)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
[root at majax u]# cat /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps | gs -q -dBATCH
-dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=bjc800 -dBitsPerPixel=24
-dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -sOutputFile=- - > x
[root at majax u]# ls -l x
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 456571 Mar  8 12:31 x
[root at majax u]#
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

and it seems to work correctly. My GhostScript is the current Subversion
state (revision 130).

So please try the following two things and tell which of the two solves
the problem:

1. (the simpler one) Do (as root)

mv foomatic-gswrapper /root/

re-anable your printer and try to print again. Does it work then? If
not, post your error_log again.

2. Install the current Subversion revision 130 of ESP GhostScript. Post
you error_log if it does not help.

   Till