[cups] Sending mail from a CentOS7 virtual machine to Fuji Xerox ApeosPort-IV C4475 problem revisted

[Zdenek Dohnal]

Sorry, sent before I finished.
On 10/10/18 9:20 AM, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> Hi ian,
>
> I would probably check contents of /tmp/foo, if I can see any errors or
> abnormalities (you can try to open it by 'gs' command, if it is
> postscript file - you can find it out by 'file' command, or by evince,
> if it is a pdf file).
If there will be a problem, then filters are doing something nasty.
>  Then I would check communication between machine
> and printer bywireshark/tcpdump, if there is
a problem in communication.
>
> On 10/10/18 9:04 AM, マスターズ・イアン wrote:
>> Hi folks, Gernot
>>
>> Back again after various other much less interesting work.
>>
>> Had another go at this today. The punchline is that my job is now
>> being accepted by the Xeros printer but it is O size, which is not
>> much use to anyone.
>>
>> Here's the long version:
>>
>> 1. I set up Print to File for various checks. That's OK. I can print
>> to a file.
>>
>> 2. I need authentication which Xerox appears not to have built in, so
>> followed Gernot's instructions for adding that. (These are detailed in
>> the 'Setting up a file printer under CentOS7' thread of last month)
>>
>> Then send test print from GUI to Xerox printer. File arrives but its 0
>> pages long.
>>
>> 3. Print to file: OK. File @ /tmp/foo is 5504 bytes.
>>
>> 4. Send the /tmp/foo file to Xerox printer. Nothing arrives.
>>
>> 5. Print to file from GUI. OK. /tmp/foo is 15987 bytes.
>> Send that from the command line with lpr.
>> Result: nothing arrives at printer.
>>
>> 6. Decide to turn on debug in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf & restart CUPS.
>>
>> 7. Try print direct to Xerox printer:
>> Result: Jobs arriving at printer 0 pages long.
>>
>> 8. Check logs (/var/log/cups/error_log):
>> D [10/Oct/2018:15:23:47 +0900] [Job 22] PID 14634
>> (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdffx) exited with no errors.
>>
>> D [10/Oct/2018:15:23:47 +0900] [Job 22] PID 14635
>> (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopjlfx) exited with no errors.
>> D [10/Oct/2018:15:23:47 +0900] [Job 22] /usr/lib/cups/filter/fxauth: 行
>> 13: is: コマンドが見つかりません
>>
>> FIXED a line break in /usr/lib/cups/filter/fxauth
>>
>> 9. Try print direct again:
>>    Result: job arrived but was 0 size again.
>>    10. Check logs:
>>
>> D [10/Oct/2018:15:40:34 +0900] [Job 24] PID 14830
>> (/usr/lib/cups/filter/fxauth) exited with no errors.
>>
>> D [10/Oct/2018:15:40:34 +0900] Returning IPP successful-ok for
>> Print-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/11F1) from localhost
>>
>>
>> So now I have no errors, but the document I send arrives at the
>> printer, but the printer tells me it's 0 pages long, and as a result,
>> doesn't want to print it :-(
>>
>> Now I'm stumped. For the moment. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks for reading this far.
>>
>> ian
>>
>>
>> p.s. Gernot, is your http://aikishugyo.jp/ offline? I thought I would
>> check it but I'm getting: 530 Service Unavailable ...
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Zdenek Dohnal
Associate Software Engineer
Red Hat Czech - Brno TPB-C