cups PS

Thu Sep 28 03:27:14 PDT 2006

Ricky wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am trying to print a cups testpage to a PS printer (Dell Laser Printer 3100cn), but nothing comes out of the printer.
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> I have a HP Color LaserJet 3500 that is using (Foomatic/hpijs) drivers And a Samsung SCX-6220 using (Generic PCL 5e Printer Foomatic/ljet4d) driver.. I am able to print to both of them. All my printers are connected ethernet. So I am using AppsSocket/HP Jetdirect.
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> I suspect I might be missing a filter to print ps files, but don't know which one. I actally Got another printe server up and running and it has no problems printing to the Dell. I actally copied the config files from working sever to other server.
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> My error log is turned on with debug mode enable so here is my long log file:
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> I [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 15.
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] copy_banner(0xb7cbfc3c[7], 0x81e9f10[15], none)
> I [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] Job 15 queued on 'BCHQ-Dell-Color' by 'root'.
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] Job 15 hold_until = 0
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] SaveJob: Closing file 9...
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob(15, 0x8092448)
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob() id = 15, file = 0/1
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] job-sheets=none,none
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] banner_page = 0
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: argv = "BCHQ-Dell-Color","15","root","Test Page","1","","/var/spool/cups/d00015-001"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[0]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[1]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[2]="USER=root"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[3]="CHARSET=utf-8"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[4]="LANG=en_US"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[5]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/BCHQ-Dell-Color.ppd"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[7]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[8]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[9]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/postscript"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[10]="DEVICE_URI=socket://10.1.2.21:9100"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[11]="PRINTER=BCHQ-Dell-Color"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[12]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[13]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[14]="CUPS_SERVER=localhost"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: envp[15]="IPP_PORT=631"
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: Allocating status buffer...
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: statusfds = [ 9 10 ]
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 11 -1 ]
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 12 13 ]
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops", 0xbf82c880, 0xbf82bbf0, 11, 13, 10)
> I [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 15452) for job 15.
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket"
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ -1 11 ]
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket", 0xbf82c880, 0xbf82bbf0, 12, 11, 10)
> I [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 15453) for job 15.
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StartJob: Adding fd 9 to InputSet...
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] add_job_state_reasons(0xb7cbfc3c[7], 15)
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=0
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] ProcessIPPRequest: Adding fd 7 to OutputSet...
> I [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] Attempting to connect to host 10.1.2.21 on port 9100
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] WriteClient: Removing fd 7 from OutputSet...
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] PID 15451 exited with no errors.
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] DeleteCert: removing certificate for pid 15451
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] ReadClient: 7, used=0, file=-1
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] ReadClient: httpGets returned EOF...
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] CloseClient: 7
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] CloseClient: Removing fd 7 from InputSet and OutputSet...
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] WriteClient: Removing fd 5 from OutputSet...
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] WriteClient: Removing fd 8 from InputSet...
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] WriteClient: 5 Closing data file 8.
> I [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] Connected to host, sending print job...
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] Page = 612x792; 12,12 to 600,780
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] slowcollate=0, slowduplex=0, sloworder=0
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%Pages: 1
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%LanguageLevel: 1
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset testprint/1.1
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica Helvetica-Bold Times-Roman
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%Creator: Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%CreationDate: May 11, 1999
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%Title: Test Page
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%EndComments
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%BeginProlog
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%BeginResource procset testprint 1.1 0
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%EndResource
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%EndProlog
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%Page: 1 1
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%Page: 1 1
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] pw = 588.8, pl = 768.8
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] PageLeft = 11.6, PageRight = 600.4
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] PageTop = 780.4, PageBottom = 11.6
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
> E [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] Unable to send print file to printer: Broken pipe
> I [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] Print file sent, waiting for printer to finish...
> E [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] PID 15453 stopped with status 1!
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] 0 %%EOF
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] [Job 15] Saw EOF!
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] PID 15452 exited with no errors.
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] UpdateJob: job 15, file 0 is complete.
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] UpdateJob: Removing fd 9 from InputSet...
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StopJob: id = 15, force = 0
> I [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] Saving printers.conf...
> D [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StopJob: printer state is 5
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] StopJob: Freeing status buffer...
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:00 -0400] SaveJob: Closing file 8...
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:01 -0400] select_timeout: 11 seconds to process active jobs
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:12 -0400] select_timeout: 11 seconds to process active jobs
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:23 -0400] select_timeout: 3 seconds to send browse update
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:26 -0400] select_timeout: 1 seconds to send browse update
> d [27/Sep/2006:13:11:27 -0400] select_timeout: 1 seconds to send browse update
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> Thanks, For any help!

If you look through your error log, you willfind that the socket backend
exited with satus 1 and issued an error message ("...broken pipe").
That probably is due to the fact that the respective printer closed
the network connection before all of the job data had been transferred.

Helge

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