Arch Linux

Looks like to be a cups-filter bug, but it break some cups features, so...

Remove cups-filter pkg. It's not needed together with cups 1.5.x and breaks some stuff.

Well, after I verified, I do not have cups-filters installed. Only cups and libcups, both in version 1.5.3-2.

Edit : pdf printing works after I installed cups-filters... Something is broken in cups or what ? And if I want to remove libusb-compat, about 1 Gb of software is going to be removed... So something is broken with libusb change, which is the main change of cups 1.5.3-2.

Are you using plain cups or some additional driver pkg like hplip or splix?

Maybe removed libusb-compat dep is now needed somewhere else that was covered before. For reference look at Fedora/Debian/Gentoo packages.

I'm getting the same error printing to a Kyocera Networked PS printer. Tried rolling cups and libcups back as far as 1.5.2-2 without luck.

I am also receiving this error, printing with the "HP Photosmart c6200 Series, hpcups 3.10.6" driver, cups 1.5.3-2, cups-filters not installed. However, I was able to use pdftops in terminal to manually generate a PostScript file from my PDF. Then, I used lpr to successfully print the document. It's worth a try if you need to print something while this issue is resolved.

@Andreas : I'm using this AUR package in order to get my printer working : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47182

The only workaround for me was to force the installation - I know it is very dirty to do this - of cups filter. The pdftops executable of cups package won't work. Only the one in cups-filters works. Weird :(

I have this issue using hplip with a hp laserjet printer connected on my router.
If this could be useful I got this on dmesg every time I try to print:

[ 328.083103] pdftops[1342] trap divide error ip:7fafd54bcdf4 sp:7fffa94d8410 error:0 in libpoppler.so.25.0.0[7fafd536b000+211000]
[ 1018.283971] pdftops[1574] trap divide error ip:7fef98f6adf4 sp:7fffb6b74100 error:0 in libpoppler.so.25.0.0[7fef98e19000+211000]

The cups web interface show "pdftops failed" as said by fredbezies.
I don't know if it's related but my printer also said that the ink level is low and it's strange because I printed days ago and the ink level was 100%.

Same problem with a networked HP LaserJet 2100 printer, using the driver: HP LaserJet 2100 hpijs, 3.11.12 (color, 2-sided printing)
Packages being used: cups 1.5.3-2, cups-pdf 2.6.1-1, libcups 1.5.3-2, libgnomecups 0.2.3-9, hplip 3.12.4-1

Same problem for me too with Brother LaserJet HL-2140.

Not sure if this will help but I noticed that printing does work sometimes. For example, I had an email in my Gmail Inbox that would not print even though I restarted the machine, reset the printer, reupdated the drivers. But when I removed an <img> element from the email, it printed. I noticed a couple PDF's I had, one with some images stripped out worked, but the one with images didn't.

There was a version update for poppler on 26 May - I suspect this is an issue with poppler rather than cups.
pdftops is part of poppler

Yes, downgrading poppler, poppler-glib, and poppler-qt to version 0.18.4-2 fixed the printer issue for me. Not sure which of those files actually fixed it though.

Running 'pdftops' directly on a file that borked my printer via cups produces flawless postscript.

So I just downloaded and built the latest cups-filters http://www.openprinting.org/download/cups-filters/cups-filters-1.0-20120528.tar.gz. Did a force install to overwrite the filters that come with cups. Everything works now.

There must be an incompatibility between the default cups-1.5.3 filter files and the latest poppler.

Downgrading poppler and poppler-glib to version 0.18.4-2 fixed it for me. Similar to ozar above.

Does recompiliung cups against new poppler help?

Please test cups 1.5.3-3 in testing.

We now use the new cups-filter pkg replacing parts of cups that will be dropped in 1.6 - Debian does the same now for some timer in Sid also with cups 1.5.x.

Andreas... yes, the 1.5.3-3 CUPS release in testing works well for me, and it does so with the latest release of poppler.

Thank you.

Yes that works fine now for me too. Latest cups and poppler.

I also noticed cups-filters was installed as a dependency. This is the first time I have had this package installed. I did try to install it earlier to solve this issue however it gave a conflict error so I left it.

Thanks Andreas.

Works for me too, with fully updated system plus cups 1.5.3-3 and libcups 1.5.3-3 from testing.
However, I had to change the driver to HP LaserJet 2100, hpcups 3.12.4 to get things printing off properly (previously used HP LaserJet 2100 hpijs, 3.11.12).