[cups.general] foomatic fails

[Till Kamppeter]

Aristides Katavolos wrote:
> Hello!
> Can anybody please help with the following problem:
> 
> I am trying to install an epson EPL5800L printer on my recently installed kubuntu 8.04. I have followed the instructions in
>   http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/CUPSDocumentation
> 
> but when I try to print a test page I get the message
> 
> epson "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed"
>

See Kurt Pfeifle's CUPS trobleshooting HOWTO, it especially tells you 
how to activate the debug mode of CUPS and how to find the origin of the 
problem then.

http://www.cups.org/cups-help.html

In most cases it is not Foomatic itself, often this happens when 
Ghostscript crashes on bad Postscript, driver executables or libraries 
are not installed, fonts are missing, ...

> I got the .ppd file by downloading
> epsoneplijs-0.4.0.tgz from  http://sourceforge.net/
>

Are you sure that you have installed the full package and not only the 
PPD file?

> Please note that I had managed to configure the same printer on the same desktop with the same .ppd file under kubuntu 6.06.
> 
> 
> Here is the error_log
> 
> E [01/May/2008:11:33:56 +0300] PID 6983 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
> E [01/May/2008:11:33:56 +0300] [Job 18] Job stopped due to filter errors.
> E [01/May/2008:11:42:06 +0300] PID 7065 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
> E [01/May/2008:11:42:06 +0300] [Job 19] Job stopped due to filter errors.
> E [01/May/2008:11:42:20 +0300] Cancel-Job: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:11:42:49 +0300] CUPS-Delete-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:11:42:49 +0300] CUPS-Delete-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:11:43:33 +0300] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:11:44:30 +0300] CUPS-Set-Default: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:11:44:52 +0300] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:11:45:11 +0300] PID 7225 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
> E [01/May/2008:11:45:11 +0300] [Job 20] Job stopped due to filter errors.
> E [01/May/2008:13:43:38 +0300] CUPS-Delete-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:15:24:39 +0300] Unknown directive debug on line 1.
> E [01/May/2008:16:20:25 +0300] Unknown directive debug on line 1.
> E [01/May/2008:16:22:39 +0300] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:16:22:53 +0300] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:16:23:21 +0300] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:16:23:43 +0300] PID 9537 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
> E [01/May/2008:16:23:43 +0300] [Job 21] Job stopped due to filter errors.
> E [01/May/2008:17:17:51 +0300] CUPS-Delete-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:17:18:21 +0300] Unknown directive debug on line 1.
> E [01/May/2008:17:20:06 +0300] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:17:20:33 +0300] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:17:20:54 +0300] PID 10529 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
> E [01/May/2008:17:21:38 +0300] Pause-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:17:22:36 +0300] Resume-Printer: Unauthorized
> E [01/May/2008:17:22:45 +0300] PID 10579 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!

You need to switch to debug mode. Then Foomatic adds a lot of 
information here, which usually shows what went wrong.

    Till