[arch] HPLIP + foomatic-rip

[david]

Firmicus at gmx.net wrote:
>
> Since latest cups upgrade I have serious problems printing with my HP
> Business Inkjet 1000 (using the PPD driver provided by the hplip
> package). I had used it without problems until now. But now I can only
> print PS files through Gnome applications, otherwise nothing will print!
>
> I have the following packages installed (latest stable versions from
> current and extra):
> cups, libgnomeprint, hplip and their dependencies (including
> foomatic-db-engine and foomatic-filters).
>
> The following error message inevitably shows up in
> /var/log/cups/error_log :
>
> E [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] PID 10939
> (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 1!
>
> When I turn on debugging this is preceded by the following information:
>
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] foomatic-gswrapper: gs
> '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=ijs'
> '-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD'
> '-sDeviceModel=deskjet 5600' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=0'
> '-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=0' '-dDuplex=false' '-r300'
> '-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=0,Quality:ColorMode=2,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=2,PS:MediaPosition=7'
> '-dIjsUseOutputFD' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
> C [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] undefined in get
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Operand stack:
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] true  --nostringval-- 
> --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval-- 
> --nostringval--  --nostringval--  LeadingEdge  --nostringval-- 
> LeadingEdge
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] renderer return value: 255
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] renderer received signal: 255
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] tail process done writing
> data to STDOUT
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] KID4 finished
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Process dying with "The
> renderer command line returned an unrecognized error code 255.", exit
> stat: 1
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] The renderer command line
> returned an unrecognized error code 255.
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Wrote 1 pages...
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] PID 10938 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops)
> exited with no errors.
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186]
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Closing renderer
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] KID4 exited with status 0
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] KID3 exited with status 1
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Renderer exit stat: 1
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Renderer process finished
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Killing process 10942 (KID3)
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Process dying with "Error
> closing renderer", exit stat: 1
> D [15/Sep/2006:16:02:12 +0200] [Job 186] Error closing renderer
>
> ----
>
> Apparently there is some incompatibility between some packages among
> cups, foomatic-filters and hplip (or perhaps ghostscript), but I have
> not been able to find relevant info via google.
>
> I have tried to downgrade cups to 1.2.2 but it did not help.
>
> Any idea? Thanks in advance.
>
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does
ls /etc/cups/ppd/
and
cat /etc/printcap
look the same?
just a guess ...