FS#30786 - cups-filters 1.0.19-1 is buggy - print fails with '/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed'

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Heinrich Siebmanns (Harvey) - Saturday, 21 July 2012, 15:50 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 22 July 2012, 11:36 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

With the new package cups-filters 1.0.19-1 cups stopped working on all devices. Even cups-pdf fails.
Error reported by cups: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed.

Additional info from /var/log/cups/errot_log:
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] Before copy_comments - %!PS-Adobe-3.0
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] %!PS-Adobe-3.0
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] %Produced by poppler pdftops version: 0.20.2 (http://poppler.freedesktop.org)
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] %%LanguageLevel: 2
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] %%DocumentMedia: 595x842 595 842 0 () ()
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] %%Pages: 1
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] %%EndComments
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] Before copy_prolog - %%BeginProlog
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] Before copy_setup - %%BeginSetup
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] The %%EndSetup comment is missing.
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] Before page loop - DEBUG: Wrote 0 pages...
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] PID 2011 (pstops) exited with no errors.
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] PID 2010 (pdftops) crashed on signal 8!
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] End of messages
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state=3(idle)
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state-message="/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops failed"
D [21/Jul/2012:17:29:29 +0200] [Job 5] printer-state-reasons=none

pdftops is part of the cups-filters package.

Test: downgraded to cups-filters-1.0.18-3.
Result: all is working again.
Conclusion: cups-filters 1.0.19-1 is buggy

Steps to reproduce:
print ;)

This happens on an arch x86_64 install with all testing repos enabled
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 22 July 2012, 11:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 21 July 2012, 17:12 GMT
Printing some text files from medit and web pages from Firefox to my pdf-printer works well here.
Comment by Heinrich Siebmanns (Harvey) - Sunday, 22 July 2012, 11:00 GMT
cups-filters-1.0.20-1 from today fixed this for me. Can be closed, I guess.

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