is CUPS 1.4.4-7 non-deterministic or error prone?

E. Gerlach jack at aiai.de
Sun Nov 27 13:55:40 PST 2011


Am 27.11.2011 22:52, schrieb E. Gerlach:
> Am 27.11.2011 22:23, schrieb E. Gerlach:
>> Hi,
>>
>> CUPS 1.4.4-7 (debian squeeze) was running fine for 2 weeks. Suddenly
>> after some changes of ppd files CUPS claimed to accept jobs from a suse
>> machine:
>>
>> suse111:~ # lp -h cups -d hl5270 -o media=Tray1  /tmp/david.ps
>> lp: format „application/postscript“ not supported
>> (translated from german: lp: Format „application/postscript“ nicht
>> unterstützt!)
> CUPS server claims:
> I [27/Nov/2011:17:30:27 +0000] [Job ???] Request file type is
> application/postscript.
> E [27/Nov/2011:17:30:27 +0000] Returning IPP
> client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job
> (ipp://localhost/printers/hl5270) from 192.168.0.100
> I [27/Nov/2011:17:34:40 +0000] [Job ???] Request file type is
> application/postscript.

BTW: application/octet-stream  in mime.types  and mime.confs are
uncommented as default in debian squeeze package, I changed nothing.
> 
>> I'm printing from SuSE11.1, queues inserted in printers.conf manually,
>> no PPD files in ppd-directory.
>>
>> Two printers hl5270 and hl5270li with the same error. I stopped and
>> restartet the debian print server, I rebootet. Nothing helped. I
>> searched for hours! error.log displayed the unknown format error.
>>
>> I saved /etc/cups/printers.conf , /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and
>> /etc/cups/ppd/*. I've never edited other CUPS-files in my life. I purged
>> cups and I re-installed. I played back the two files an the PPDs  - and
>> all worked fine!! CUPS - non-deterministic or error prone?
>>
>> BTW: CUPS did NOT work properly after play back of files, one execption:
>> printing to hl5270li worked but not printing to hl5270! Same error:
>> „application/postscript“ not supported. I exchanged the new and directly
>> from Brother downloaded PPD file for HL-5270, I took the 3 years old PPD
>> file for HL-5270 from Brother. And it worked! Printing was possible.
>> After a hour I played back the other PPD-file and and this PPD works
>> again, no error. Is CUPS 1.4.4-7  non-deterministic or error prone?
>>
>> Ekkard
> 





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