Bug 152538

Summary: cups corrupts ppd file while copying it to /etc/cups/ppd/
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Myk Melez <myk>
Component: foomaticAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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original, uncorrupted PPD
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corrupted PPD none

Description Myk Melez 2005-03-30 04:06:49 UTC 
Description of problem:

If I place the pxl1010 PPD for the LaserJet 1012 into my /usr/share/cups/model/
directory, then restart CUPS and add my LaserJet 1012 to my list of printers via
printconf-gui, cups copies the PPD file to /etc/cups/ppd, but the PPD file gets
corrupted in the process, and the corruption causes my printer to print out
reams of blank pages and raw printer commands when I try to print a document.

If I subsequently copy the file over myself and restart cupsd, all is well, and
I can print using the PPD file perfectly.

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

Latest cups from FC3+updates:

[myk@myk ~]$ rpm -qi cups
Name        : cups                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.1.22                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 0.rc1.8.5                     Build Date: Mon 07 Feb 2005 09:11:00
AM PST

Latest version of the pxl1010 PPD file from linuxprinting.org:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1012

How reproducible:   Happens every time.
Steps to Reproduce: See description.
Actual results:     Corrupted PPD; prints garbage
Expected results:   Uncorrupted PPD; prints documents
Comment 1 Myk Melez 2005-03-30 04:06:49 UTC 
Created attachment 112444 [details]
original, uncorrupted PPD
Comment 2 Myk Melez 2005-03-30 04:09:23 UTC 
Created attachment 112445 [details]
corrupted PPD
Comment 3 Myk Melez 2005-03-30 04:12:49 UTC 
Note that this reoccurs when you make changes to the printer's configuration, so
even if you fix the problem by manually copying over the file, it will get
re-corrupted the next time you change its configuration.

Note also the following message in the linuxprinting forums, in which another
user runs into the same problem:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums.cgi?group=linuxprinting.hp.general;article=6780

Finally, I note that the version of cups on my Mac OS X 10.3.8 laptop does not
have this problem.  I'm not sure what version of cups they're using, though;
cupsd doesn't have a -V switch to tell me, and I don't know how else to get it.
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2005-06-28 10:07:15 UTC 
This is due to the way that our patched foomatic imports PPD files. (The
upstream foomatic cannot import PPD files at all..)

I expect you will find that you can use this PPD file correctly when you add it
from the http://localhost:631/ CUPS web interface.
Comment 5 Matthew Miller 2006-07-10 22:00:48 UTC 
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security
updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and
reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and
hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test
release, reopen and change the version to match.

Thank you!