Bug 405061
| Summary: | Line longer than the maximum allowed (255 characters) | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Ellson <john.ellson> | ||||||||
| Component: | cups | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||||
| Version: | 8 | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.3.5-2.fc8 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2008-01-27 07:18:41 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 235704 | ||||||||||
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Please attach the PPD for that printer. I suspect it has a line whose length exceeds 255 characters, and PPD parsers are required to treat this as an error according to the PPD spec. Where do I find the ppd? This is a remote printer provided via cups, not a locally attached printer. I'll attach /var/cache cups/remote.cache in case thats what you need? Created attachment 273801 [details]
/var/cache/cups/remote.cache
Created attachment 273811 [details]
/var/cache/cups/ppds.dat
Perhaps /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat contains the ppd? But its in some binary
format.
Sorry, I should have pointed you to the location: /etc/cups/ppd/mta54xb.ppd is what I need. Thanks. Oh, I just saw your comment about it being a remote printer. Then please do this:
python -c 'import cups; c=cups.Connection(); print c.getPPD("mta54xb.ppd")'
This will show you the location of a temporary file holding the PPD. Please
attach that file.
I mean: python -c 'import cups; c=cups.Connection(); print c.getPPD("mta54xb")'
Created attachment 274031 [details]
file returned from above python incantation
Looks like the offending line is in a comment? Perhaps the 255 char limit shouldn't apply to comments? I hate to say this ;-) but Windows users around here aren't having any problems with this printer. That PPD was generated by an older version of foomatic -- newer versions do not present this problem. However, CUPS could probably be a little more tolerant of this particular problem. I've reported this upstream, with a suggested patch: http://cups.org/str.php?L2662 That patch was rejected upstream. However, I think we'll need to carry it for a short while. Applied in CVS. cups-1.3.5-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update cups' Test update works for me. cups-1.3.5-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: I want to turn on the banner page for printing to a shared network on our corporate network. I'm assuming I do this through "Set Printer Options" on the printer entry on the CUPS web page? Selecting "Set Printer Options" results in a web page containing the error message: "Line longer than the maximum allowed (255 characters)" The (local) URL for the page with the error message is: http://localhost:631/admin/?op=set-printer-options&printer_name=mta54xb Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.http://localhost:631/printers/?QUERY=mta54 2. click on "Set Printer Options" 3. Actual results: http://localhost:631/admin/?op=set-printer-options&printer_name=mta54xb containing the error message: "Line longer than the maximum allowed (255 characters)" Expected results: No artificially low limits. Ability to change printer options (assuming this is the right place to do it) Additional info: I thought gtklp might provide another way to set this option, but it can't handle the number of share printers we have on our network.