[cups] stopped "Filter failed"

[Jerry]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 23:06:30 +0200, Helge Blischke stated:

> 
> 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.

"pdftops" is installed: "/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops" as well as
the "poppler" package.

-- 
Jerry