cups-pdf crash status -139

[Michael Gmelin]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:43:35 +0200
Per olof Ljungmark <peo at nethead.se> wrote:

> On 2020-06-16 12:15, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> On 16. Jun 2020, at 11:47, Per olof Ljungmark <peo at nethead.se>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2020-06-15 16:14, Michael Gmelin wrote:  
> >>>> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:03:17 +0200
> >>>> Per olof Ljungmark <peo at nethead.se> wrote:
> >>>> On 2020-06-15 09:50, Michael Gmelin wrote:  
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      
> >>>>>> On 15. Jun 2020, at 09:45, Per olof Ljungmark <peo at nethead.se>
> >>>>>> wrote:  
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What happens if you run the gs command on the pdf you’re
> >>>>> printing directly:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      
> >>>>>> gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sstdout=?
> >>>>>> -sDEVICE=ps2write -dShowAcroForm -sOUTPUTFILE=?
> >>>>>> -dLanguageLevel=2 -r300 -dCompressFonts=false -dNoT3CCITT
> >>>>>> -dNOINTERPOLATE ? ? -f ?  
> >>>>
> >>>> A PDF is created.
> >>>>
> >>>> And, according to logs gs is OK:
> >>>>
> >>>> D [15/Jun/2020:09:16:23 +0200] [Job 1070] Wrote 1 pages...
> >>>> D [15/Jun/2020:09:16:23 +0200] [Job 1070] PID 37126 (pstops)
> >>>> exited with no errors.
> >>>> D [15/Jun/2020:09:16:23 +0200] [Job 1070] PID 37125 (gs) exited
> >>>> with no errors.
> >>>> D [15/Jun/2020:09:16:23 +0200] [Job 1070] PID 37123
> >>>> (/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops) exited with no errors.
> >>>> I [15/Jun/2020:09:16:23 +0200] [Job 1070] Backend returned status
> >>>> -139 (crashed)  
> >>> Are you printer(s) shown as okay in the cups web UI? (like, not
> >>> temporarily halted, stopped, etc.?). I sometimes had some issues
> >>> after upgrading, especially with hplip.
> >>> This upstream issue reported earlier this year sounds similar to
> >>> what you're seeing, maybe it helps:
> >>> https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5765  
> >>
> >> The cups-pdf printer is paused with "Backend failed" but all other
> >> printers are OK. HPLIP is not installed. 
> > 
> > Can you enable the cups-pdf printer using the “cupsenable” command?
> > And if so, will it stay enabled or go back to paused/failed at the
> > next attempt? 
> 
> It reverts to "Backend failed".
> 
> Just tried to add the cups-pdf printer to the 12-STABLE workstation
> I'm writing this on with identical result so by now I see this on
> three different boxes, all running 12-STABLE. Also, I am confident
> that the problem surfaced after the updates to cups in late March.
> 
> If I have the time at some point I could try to revert to an older 
> version but it would be nicer to sort the problem.
> 
> Not sure how to proceed from here...
> 

Could you share your relevant config files, so I can try to reproduce
the problem?

Thanks,
Michael


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Michael Gmelin