[cups] stopped "Filter failed"

Jerry jerry at seibercom.net
Fri Jul 18 12:45:14 PDT 2014


CUPS 1.7.3 on FreeBSD-10 amd/64

I cannot seem to get CUPS running correctly. When trying to print, even using
the CUPS web page and trying to print a text page, I get this error message:
"stopped "Filter failed"". I copied this out of the error log:

D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] Switching to Poppler's pdftops instead of Ghostscript for Brother, Minolta, and Konica Minolta to work around bugs in the printer's PS interpreters
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] Running command line for pstops: pstops 139 gerard 'Test Page' 1 'job-uuid=urn:uuid:b73d783d-7dc4-3f06-578d-59ea40294931 job-originating-host-name=localhost time-at-creation=1405701869 time-at-processing=1405701869'
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] Running command line for pdftops: pdftops -level3 /var/spool/cups/tmp/0e48d53cb7a53 -
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] Started filter pdftops (PID 58511)
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] Started filter pstops (PID 58512)
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] Unable to execute pdftops program: No such file or directory
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] The print file is empty.
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] PID 58512 (pstops) stopped with status 1!
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] PID 58511 (pdftops) stopped with status 1!
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] PID 58510 (/usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/lpd) exited with no errors.
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] PID 58509 (/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops) stopped with status 1.
D [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] Discarding unused job-state-changed event...
E [18/Jul/2014:12:44:29 -0400] [Job 139] Job stopped due to filter errors; please consult the error_log file for details.

I am not sure what the problem is or what to look for. I am hoping someone
can assist me. I can obviously supply the entire log if requested.

-- 
Jerry



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