[cups] printer-state-message="Filter failed" ? is it cups, ghostscript, or other?

[PGNet Dev]

On 4/4/19 10:39 PM, Daniel Spannbauer wrote:> 
> Ghostscript raises the error here.
> 
> printer-state-message="Filter failed" Is the message that is sent back by cups.

ok, thx

On 4/5/19 2:26 AM, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> When Ghostscript fails it usually means its input
> (in this case the PDF output from /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf)
> is somehow wrong.
> 
...

> Wherefrom do you have your Ghostscript 9.27?
> 
> Do you have it from the openSUSE Build Service "Printing" project
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Printing/ghostscript

yep.

/usr/bin/gs --version
	9.27

ls -al /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf
	-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 183K Jul 20  2018 /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf*

rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/gs
	ghostscript-9.27-lp150.127.1.x86_64

rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf
	cups-filters-1.20.4-lp150.86.1.x86_64

zypper se -s | egrep -i "cups-filters|ghostscript" | grep ^i
  i  | OpenPrintingPPDs-ghostscript | package    | 4.0.0.2-lp150.50.1  | noarch | Printing
  i+ | cups-filters                 | package    | 1.20.4-lp150.86.1   | x86_64 | Printing
  i  | ghostscript                  | package    | 9.27-lp150.127.1    | x86_64 | Printing
  i+ | ghostscript-devel            | package    | 9.27-lp150.127.1    | x86_64 | Printing
  i+ | ghostscript-fonts            | package    | 9.06-lp150.29.1     | noarch | Printing
  i  | ghostscript-fonts-other      | package    | 9.06-lp150.29.1     | noarch | Printing
  i  | ghostscript-fonts-std        | package    | 9.06-lp150.29.1     | noarch | Printing
  i+ | ghostscript-x11              | package    | 9.27-lp150.127.1    | x86_64 | Printing

zypper lr Printing
	Alias          : Printing
	Name           : Printing
	URI            : https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_Leap_15.0
	Enabled        : Yes
	GPG Check      : (r ) Yes
	Priority       : 89 (raised priority)
	Autorefresh    : On
	Keep Packages  : Off
	Type           : rpm-md
	GPG Key URI    :
	Path Prefix    :
	Parent Service :
	Keywords       : ---
	Repo Info Path : /etc/zypp/repos.d/Printing.repo
	MD Cache Path  : /var/cache/zypp/raw/Printing