ports/188509: print/hplip: critical: non functional with some HP InkJet with printer/cups-filters

[O. Hartmann]

>Number:         188509
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       print/hplip: critical: non functional with some HP InkJet with printer/cups-filters
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 12 12:20:00 UTC 2014
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>Originator:     O. Hartmann
>Release:        FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT, FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE
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Since the update of printer/cups from 1.5.X to 1.7.1, a lot of changes were introduced to printsystem. print/hplip has also been updated according to requiremets of cups 1.7.1.

With the update mentioned above a working CUPS environment with HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 a911N (network attached) driven by print/hplip driver hp-officejet_pro_8600-hpijs.ppd.gz was rendered completely useless in conjunction with print/cups-filters (see PR ports/188470).

The symptoms are strange.

When print/cups-filters is installed, printing is impossible. From clients like xpdf, xdvi, Firefox, Claws-Mail, LibreOffice from which printing was possible for months with CUPS 1.5.X, now rejects printing, instead the printer produces empty sheets of paper, get rogue and prints several sheets and starts extensively cleaning which results in a high cost of ink. I can watch the docuemnt getting attached to the correct queue via https://localhost:631 cups webfrontend, but the job gets stuck there, being restarted every time cupsd is restarted and producing crap.

When printer/cups-filters is deinstalled, printing from cleints like xpdf, xdvi works again, which leaves me with the capability of printing PDFs and PS. But still other clients do not print (FireFox, Claws-Mail, LibreOffice).

The fact that print/cups-filters renders the print system unusable when installed, is strange.

I have already completely recompiled every port necessary/required by print/cups (portmaster -f print/cups) which should by definition solve problems with outdated ports not captured by the regular maintaining process - with no success.
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