Bug 457679

Summary: foomatic strips special characters from PPD file name
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vasile Gaburici <gaburici>
Component: foomaticAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Vasile Gaburici 2008-08-03 12:20:23 UTC
My non-postscript HP LaserJet 6P started getting fed raw postscript in economy mode (300dpi, draft) after the automated update of cups on Jul 10. The 600dpi non-economy mode still works properly, i.e. postscript gets translated to pcl5 before being fed to it.

I tried deleting an recreating the printer profile, but this had no effect.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.3.7-8.fc9

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2008-08-03 13:35:49 UTC
Please try running the printing troubleshooter: System->Administration->Printing from the main menu, then Help->Troubleshoot from the menu bar.

It will ask you to print a test page -- do this in the same way as you are currently printing and seeing the incorrect output.

Please attach the resulting troubleshoot.txt file to this bug report.  Thanks.

Comment 2 Vasile Gaburici 2008-08-03 13:44:02 UTC
Created attachment 313292 [details]
Troubleshoot text.

I had already done that. Even the test page comes out as raw postscript (that is a few postscript strings followed by many blank pages) in econo mode. I'm attaching the troubleshoot text.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2008-08-03 13:54:51 UTC
Please attach /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6Pecon.ppd.

Comment 4 Vasile Gaburici 2008-08-03 14:38:41 UTC
Created attachment 313293 [details]
PPD

Could the problem be that there are square brackets in the file name?

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2008-08-04 08:33:03 UTC
Looks like it, yes:

'D [02/Aug/2008:23:35:26 +0300] [Job 16] PPD file: /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6Pecon.ppd',

This is a foomatic bug then.

Comment 6 Vasile Gaburici 2008-08-04 18:55:11 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Looks like it, yes:
> 
> 'D [02/Aug/2008:23:35:26 +0300] [Job 16] PPD file:
> /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6Pecon.ppd',
> 
> This is a foomatic bug then.

Confirmed. I deleted the profile with brackets in the name and created one without brackets; economy mode works now. I changed to priority to low since this is easy to work around.

Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2008-09-05 12:59:27 UTC
Reported upstream:
  http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:04:16 UTC
foomatic-3.0.2-66.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 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 foomatic'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7884

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:09:35 UTC
foomatic-3.0.2-66.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 foomatic'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-7924

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2008-09-25 00:00:11 UTC
foomatic-3.0.2-67.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 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 foomatic'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7884

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2008-09-25 00:22:01 UTC
foomatic-3.0.2-67.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 foomatic'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-7924

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-09-28 18:41:24 UTC
foomatic-3.0.2-67.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-09-28 18:43:36 UTC
foomatic-3.0.2-67.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.