[cups] gs crashes, printing fails. How to report properly?

[Michael Sweet]

Paolo,

You can do "sudo cp /var/spool/cups/tmp/... filename.ps", assuming the temporary file is still around.

> On Mar 24, 2015, at 5:34 AM, Paolo Bolzoni <paolo.bolzoni.brown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> My system lost the ability to print most of the files, check the cups
> log I can find lines like:
> 
> D [24/Mar/2015:07:58:30 +0100] [Job 12] Running command line for gs:
> gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ps2write -sOUTPUTFILE=%stdout
> -dLanguageLevel=3 -r600 -dCompressFonts=false -dNoT3CCITT
> -dNOINTERPOLATE -c 'save pop' -f /var/spool/cups/tmp/03ce45514d3fc
> [...]
> D [24/Mar/2015:07:58:30 +0100] [Job 12] PID 15592 (gs) crashed on signal 11!
> 
> That I guess is not expected, I'd like to post this problem to the gs
> mailing list.
> It is possible to keep a copy of the spool cups file with ease?
> 
> Or should  I do something else? Thanks!
> 
> Yours faithfully,
> Paolo
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair