Bug 56566
| Summary: | ljet4 still broken in foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.6 | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | mcornick | ||||
| Component: | foomatic | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | robertk | ||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2001-12-18 22:57:17 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 38183 [details]
log file from failed printing attempt
OK, there is a typo in the postin script in the RPM:
# zap the cache
rm -rf /var/chache/foomatic/{pcache,compiled}/*
That should, of course, be /var/cache/foomatic..., not /var/chache/foomatic.
When I upgraded to the new RPM, the old cache didn't get erased, so the old
cached driver which didn't -Mutf8 was still being used. I removed foomatic,
nuked the cache directories, and reinstalled, and now ljet4 works fine. So if
you fix the typo, I'm guessing this will work and this bug can be closed.
To get my HP 4L printer to work partially, I had to delete all previous print queues and reconfigure a queue. I had to name the queue lp0, same as the device. Naming it HP-4L didn't work. Also, although some applications print properly, any ones based on Postscript print magnified, which is a colossal nuisance. Deleting my /var/cache/foomatic contents, solved the problem for my HP1100 printer. I was also able to name the queue's something other than lp0 as well. So this should be fixed by foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.7? Please re-open if not. Thanks. |
Description of Problem: The foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.6 errata, claimed to fix problems with printing to (among others) ljet4 printers, does not fix breakage seen with the previous foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.3 rpm. With either of these RPMs installed, printing PostScript to an ljet4 printer results in absolutely no output; the printer does not even indicate any data being received. lpd removes the job immediately and produces no errors in lpq; however, there are errors from ghostscript in the status.lp file. This printer did work with the foomatic-1.1-0.20010905.1 shipped with Red Hat 7.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1-0.20011018.6 How Reproducible: 100% consistently reproducible. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install latest foomatic update 2. Run printconf-gui, configure an HP Laserjet 4 printer with the ljet4 driver 3. Apply changes and restart lpd 4. Print Postscript test page 5. Wait Actual Results: No pages printed. Expected Results: Standard Red Hat test page printed on HP Laserjet 4 printer. Additional Information: This printer does work if you pretend it is an HP Laserjet 4L and use the omni driver instead of the ljet4 driver. However, the ljet4 driver supports higher resolution than the omni driver, and is generally a much more mature and proven driver, so this is not really an acceptable workaround. I will attach the status.lp log file from the /var/spool/lp/lpd directory generated by an unsucessful printing attempt following the above steps. It is very similar, if not identical, to the log file created by doing the same process with foomatic-1.1-0.20011018.3. You will note a "Can't use \x{} without 'use utf8' declaration" error.