[cups] stopped "Filter failed"

[Helge Blischke]

Am 18.07.2014 um 21:45 schrieb Jerry:

> 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

Obviously your CUPS has been configured to use the value "hybrid" for  
the pdftops utility which causes the
switch to the poppler based pdftops utility for Brother, Minolta, and  
Konica Minolta printers. So, to support those
printers with this CUOS configuration, you *must* install the poppler  
libraries and utilities (the latter contains
the pdftops uility), or you may install the Xpdf package from   Glyph  
& Cog, LLC which also contains a nearly
completely equivalent utility.

Helge