Centos 5.6 and Cups 2.4.6

[Helge Blischke]

Scott Hallenbeck wrote:

> I removed cups from Centos 5.6 server leaving cups-libs-1.3.7-26,
> downloaded cups 2.4.6, compiled and installed it.
> 
> I copied over the printer.conf and /ppd directory from a cups 1.3.7 server
> and brought it all up.
> 
> All the printers (2400+) show online and ready.  I can send them 'test
> page' prints from the gui, and have printed a pdf file from the command
> line.  All appears fully functional and prints come out fine.
> 
> Then I make the print server live to our applications, and that's when
> things go bad.
> 
> This is what I see from cups error log in debug2
> 
> d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdAcceptClient(lis=0x2b067fb4a110(5))
> Clients=0 D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from
> 10.0.34.91:631 (IPv4) d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdAddSelect(fd=9,
> read_cb=0x2b0667d54fde, write_cb=(nil), data=0x2b06a4b89ed0) d
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdCheckJobs: 0 active jobs, sleeping=0,
> reload=0 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdReadClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) con->http.error=0 con->http.used=0,
> con->http.state=0 con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH,
> con->data_remaining=0, con->file=-1 D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/tx1313-check HTTP/1.0 D
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients d
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdFindBest: uri =
> "/printers/tx1313-check"... d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdFindBest:
> Location /admin/conf Limit 7f d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdFindBest: Location /admin Limit 7f d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdFindBest: Location / Limit 7f d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdFindBest: best = / d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdAuthorize:
> con->uri="/printers/tx1313-check", con->best=0x2b067fb5dc30(/) d
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: Authorization="" D
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data
> provided. d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdIsAuthorized:
> con->uri="/printers/tx1313-check", con->best=0x2b067fb5dc30(/) d
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdIsAuthorized: level=CUPSD_AUTH_ANON,
> type=None, satisfy=CUPSD_AUTH_SATISFY_ALL, num_names=0 d
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdIsAuthorized: auth=CUPSD_AUTH_ALLOW... d
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdReadClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9))
> con->http.error=0 con->http.used=1946, con->http.state=6
> con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH, con->data_remaining=21627,
> con->file=-1 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdReadClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) con->http.error=0
> con->http.used=1912, con->http.state=6
> con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH, con->data_remaining=21593,
> con->file=-1 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdReadClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) con->http.error=0
> con->http.used=1878, con->http.state=6
> con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH, con->data_remaining=21559,
> con->file=-1 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdReadClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) con->http.error=0
> con->http.used=1804, con->http.state=6
> con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH, con->data_remaining=21485,
> con->file=-1 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdReadClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) con->http.error=0
> con->http.used=1744, con->http.state=6
> con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH, con->data_remaining=21425,
> con->file=-1 D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 9 1.1
> Print-Job 1 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdReadClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) con->http.error=0 con->http.used=0,
> con->http.state=6 con->data_encoding=HTTP_ENCODE_LENGTH,
> con->data_remaining=19681, con->file=11 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdProcessIPPRequest(0x2b06a4b89ed0[9]): operation_id = 0002 E
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"! d
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdAddEvent(event=server-audit,
> dest=(nil)(), job=(nil)(0), text="%04X %s Unsupported attributes-charset
> value "%s"", ...) D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] Discarding unused
> server-audit event... D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] Print-Job
> client-error-bad-request: Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"! E
> [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for
> Print-Job (http://atl-elmsprint.clacorp.com:631/printers/tx1313-check)
> from 10.0.34.91 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest:
> ippLength(response)=135 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdAddSelect(fd=9, read_cb=0x2b0667d54fde, write_cb=0x2b0667d54403,
> data=0x2b06a4b89ed0) d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdWriteClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) response=0x2b06931d2350(0),
> file=-1 pipe_pid=0 state=7 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdWriteClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) response=0x2b06931d2350(2),
> file=-1 pipe_pid=0 state=7 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdWriteClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) response=0x2b06931d2350(2),
> file=-1 pipe_pid=0 state=7 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdWriteClient(con=0x2b06a4b89ed0(9)) response=0x2b06931d2350(2),
> file=-1 pipe_pid=0 state=7 d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdAddSelect(fd=9, read_cb=0x2b0667d54fde, write_cb=(nil),
> data=0x2b06a4b89ed0) D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdWriteClient: 9
> Closing because Keep-Alive disabled D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400]
> cupsdCloseClient: 9 D [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdSetBusyState: Not
> busy d [14/Jun/2011:12:33:36 -0400] cupsdRemoveSelect(fd=9)
> 
> 
> 
> What I am thinking is that the real issue here is: Print-Job
> client-error-bad-request: Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"!
> 
> Since it seems to print 'local' jobs just fine, I can't help but wonder if
> it's the print jobs coming in that are causing this.
> 
> Any idea's on how I can fix this?
> 
> Scott

I guess the jobs in question are plain text files (or similar). In that 
case, you may try the texttops wrapper from the links at www.cups.org.

Helge