[cups] unable to open file | permission denied

[Evan Cooch]

And, I have more or less the same issue if print from command line, or 
from a PDF viewer (I tried many).


But, it isn't just a PDF issue. I just tried a simple ASCII text file, 
and get the following error:


stopped
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops failed"/



/
On 5/15/2014 12:59 PM, Helge Blischke wrote:
> Please do the following:
>
> cupsctl --debug-logging
> lp test.pdf
> after the error message
> cupsctl --no-debug-logging
> and then post the part of the /var/log/cups/error_log that contains 
> the messages
> related to this job.
>
> I suspect something is going wrong with the filter chain for 
> processing PDFs
>
> Helge
>
>
> Am 15.05.2014 um 18:35 schrieb Evan Cooch:
>
>> A quick search tells me I'm running into a fairly common problem, but 
>> said search also shows there is a real paucity of general 
>> solutions/fixes.
>>
>> I'm running CUPS 1.4.2 under RHEL 6.x. Added a printer (Ricoh Aficio) 
>> using vendor-supplied PPD.  However, whenever I try to print  a 
>> (almost exclusively PDF) file (either as root, or allowed user), the 
>> print job gets dumped into /var/spool/cups, and I get an error 
>> message of the following type:
>>
>> /"Unable to open file "/var/spool/cups/d00034-001" - Permission denied"
>>
>>
>> /Permissions on /var/spool/cups are
>>
>> drwx--x---.  3 root  lp    4096 May 15 11:54 cups
>>
>>
>> If I look in /var/spool/cups, the file (d00034-001) is there, with 
>> the same owner (root) and grp (lp)
>>
>>
>> ps -aux | grep cups
>>
>> shows its running as root.
>>
>> More tellingly, perhaps (although I don't know what this has to do 
>> with 'permissions') is that in /usr/var/cups/error_log, I see the 
>> following
>>
>> Cannot process "<STDIN>": Unknown filetype
>>
>>
>> Taking that as a clue, I tried printing from the command line:
>>
>>
>> lp test.pdf
>>
>> Error now is
>>
>> stopped: "Empty print file".
>>
>>
>> At this point, I'm out of options for 'self-help' based on my limited 
>> knowledge of CUPS.
>>
>> Any advice/suggestions/pointers to the obvious appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
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