Bug 1010434

Summary:	cups-pdf does not report failures well
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dale R. Worley <worley>
Component:	cups-pdf	Assignee:	Remi Collet <fedora>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version:	cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc19	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Dale R. Worley 2013-09-20 19:05:38 UTC

Description of problem:

Cups-PDF can fail to write its output but will still record log messages saying that the PDF creation was successfu.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

cups-pdf-2.6.1-4.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:

reproducible

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set up the problem of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009609, viz., label the home directory recursively "unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0
2.  Attempt to print document to Cups-PDF

Actual results:

/var/log/cups/cupsd-pdf_log reported:

Wed Sep 18 11:57:44 2013  [STATUS] PDF creation successfully finished (worley)

Expected results:

/var/log/cups/cups-pdf_log should report that PDF creation failed.

Additional info:

In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009609, cups-pdf was unable to create the output PDF due to incorrect selinux labeling of the user's home directory.  Nonetheless, /var/log/cups/cupsd-pdf_log reported:

Wed Sep 18 11:57:44 2013  [STATUS] PDF creation successfully finished (worley)

This message is deeply deceptive and should be changed.

A very desirable improvement would be for  cups-pdf to notify the user by e-mail when it cannot create the output PDF.  (E.g., cron already uses e-mail to notify the user about jobs.)

Comment 1 Remi Collet 2013-09-23 06:57:20 UTC

The message will be fixed in next build.

For another way to report success/error (using mail), please submit this idea to upstream.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-09-23 07:09:44 UTC

cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc19

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-09-23 07:09:52 UTC

cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc20

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-09-24 00:24:02 UTC

Package cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc20:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc20'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-17425/cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc20
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-10-02 06:38:32 UTC

cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-10-02 06:45:11 UTC

cups-pdf-2.6.1-7.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.