Cups on FreeBSd-12.1p7

[Tomasz CEDRO]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:46 PM James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
> Following a pkg upgrade the printers on my desktop stopped working.  I use cups
> and I see this in /var/log/cups/error.log

Looks like a cups-filters / ghostscript / pstops problem? Some drivers
use it for graphics conversion. I also had similar problem some time
ago after updating cups. You may want to use another driver for the
printer (add another one with different ppd) or use foomatic instead
of gs.. or reinstall cups and its filter / conversion / driver
dependencies?

My configuration is:

% uname -a
FreeBSD 0xCFMX4 12.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p7 GENERIC  amd64

% which gs
/usr/local/bin/gs
% pkg which /usr/local/bin/gs
/usr/local/bin/gs was installed by package ghostscript9-agpl-base-9.52_6

% which pstops
/usr/local/bin/pstops
% pkg which /usr/local/bin/pstops
/usr/local/bin/pstops was installed by package psutils-1.17_5

% pkg info cups
cups-2.3.3_1
Name           : cups
Version        : 2.3.3_1
Installed on   : Thu Jul  2 00:11:30 2020 CEST
Origin         : print/cups
Architecture   : FreeBSD:12:amd64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : print
Licenses       : APACHE20
Maintainer     : tijl at FreeBSD.org
WWW            : https://www.cups.org/
Comment        : Common UNIX Printing System
Options        :
        AVAHI          : on
        DBUS           : on
        DOCS           : on
        GNUTLS         : on
        IPPTOOL        : off
        LIBPAPER       : on
        NLS            : on
        X11            : off
Shared Libs required:
        libavahi-client.so.3
        libdbus-1.so.3
        libgnutls.so.30
        libpaper.so.1
        libavahi-common.so.3
Shared Libs provided:
        libcups.so.2
        libcupsimage.so.2
Annotations    :
        FreeBSD_version: 1201000
        cpe            : cpe:2.3:a:apple:cups:2.3.3:::::freebsd12:x64:1
        repo_type      : binary
        repository     : FreeBSD
Flat size      : 9.00MiB
Description    :
CUPS is a standards-based, open source printing system.  It uses the Internet
Printing Protocol (IPP) to support printing to local and network printers.

WWW: https://www.cups.org/

% pkg info -d cups
cups-2.3.3_1:
        gnutls-3.6.14
        libpaper-1.1.24.4
        avahi-app-0.7_3
        dbus-1.12.20

% pkg info -r cups
cups-2.3.3_1:
        cups-filters-1.27.5_1
        cups-pdf-3.0.1_1
        libreoffice-6.4.5
        qpdfview-0.4.18_8
        ghostscript9-agpl-base-9.52_6
        qt5-printsupport-5.15.0
        chromium-83.0.4103.106
        gutenprint-5.3.3
        gtk3-3.24.20
        freerdp-2.1.1
        cups-bjnp-2.0.2
        cups-fxlinuxprint-1.0.1_3
        cups-pk-helper-0.2.6
        gtk2-2.24.32

% pkg info -d cups-filters-1.27.5_1
cups-filters-1.27.5_1:
        fontconfig-2.13.92_2,1
        dejavu-2.37_1
        qpdf-10.0.1
        ghostscript9-agpl-base-9.52_6
        freetype2-2.10.2
        cups-2.3.3_1
        openldap-client-2.4.50
        avahi-app-0.7_3
        tiff-4.1.0
        poppler-utils-0.90.1
        png-1.6.37
        lcms2-2.11_1
        jpeg-turbo-2.0.4
        colord-1.3.5
        glib-2.56.3_9,1
        gettext-runtime-0.20.2
        dbus-1.12.20

% pkg info -r cups-filters-1.27.5_1
cups-filters-1.27.5_1:
        gutenprint-5.3.3

Hope that helps :-)
Tomek

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