print/cups-base web interface broken & unable to print

Robert Backhaus robbak at robbak.com
Fri Jun 6 10:28:36 UTC 2014


Hmm. I can't see any attempts to print in that log file. Perhaps I could
find it if you told me the name of the file you printed, or of the name of
the program you printed from.


On 6 June 2014 19:15, Beeblebrox <zaphod at berentweb.com> wrote:

> @Robert
>
> I ran poudriere for the installed cups* ports and did an upgrade. The
> missing commandtops file was restored when upgrade installed cups-image
> (not
> cups-filter), so that problem is resolved. Printing still fails though.
>
> I have a Virtual-PDF printer defined in cups with Generic PPD. To simplify,
> I decided to test with this printer and again got "Filter Failed" message.
> Link to log with "level debug" for this job:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YDWcTll0IFu-JUfhGCX1m2IT7gPxwqw0qoEa9_7X2J0/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Virtual-PDF PPD:
> DeviceURI cups-pdf:/
> *FormatVersion: "4.3"
> *FileVersion:   "1.1"
> *LanguageVersion: English
> *LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
> *PCFileName:    "CUPS-PDF.PPD"
> *Manufacturer:  "Generic"
> *Product:       "(CUPS v1.1)"
> *ModelName:     "Generic CUPS-PDF Printer"
> *1284DeviceID:  "MFG:Generic;MDL:CUPS-PDF Printer;DES:Generic CUPS-PDF
> Printer;CLS:PRINTER;$
> *% cupsFilter:    "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 pstitleiconv"
> *PSVersion:     "(2017.000) 0"
> *LanguageLevel: "2"
> *ColorDevice:   True
> *DefaultColorSpace: RGB
> *FileSystem:    False
> *Throughput:    "8"
> *LandscapeOrientation: Plus90
> *TTRasterizer:  Type42
>
> Separately, I have noticed a potentially incompatible option setting as
> below:
> print/cups-base (MDNSRESPONDER or AVAHI)
> print/cups-filters (AVAHI)
> I don't want to use Zeroconf at all, so I prefer to turn these options off.
> While print/cups-filters gets built with UNSET AVAHI, print/cups-base does
> not and requires that at least ONE of the Zeroconf options have been
> enabled. I have no idea how compatible the resulting binaries will be when
> Avahi is used in port but  MDNS in another.
>
> Thanks & Regards.
>
>
>
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