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Bug 1982891 - Printing of banner before PCL file only prints banner
Summary: Printing of banner before PCL file only prints banner
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: cups
Version: 8.3
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: beta
: ---
Assignee: Zdenek Dohnal
QA Contact: Petr Dancak
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1996102 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-07-15 22:58 UTC by Bryan Mason
Modified: 2022-05-10 16:35 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: cups-2.2.6-41.el8
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Clone Of:
: 1999955 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-05-10 15:21:27 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Proposed patch (160.65 KB, patch)
2021-07-15 23:01 UTC, Bryan Mason 		no flags Details | Diff
Fixed patch (1.22 KB, patch)
2021-07-15 23:13 UTC, Bryan Mason 		no flags Details | Diff
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Github OpenPrinting cups pull 209 0 None open scheduler/job.c: use gziptoany for raw files (not just raw printers) 2021-08-31 00:31:27 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 6192781 0 None None None 2021-07-16 21:39:02 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2022:2032 0 None None None 2022-05-10 15:21:38 UTC

Description Bryan Mason 2021-07-15 22:58:19 UTC 
Description of problem:

  Printing a banner before a PCL file causes only the banner to be
  printed.

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

  cups-2.2.6-38.el8

How reproducible:

  100%

Steps to Reproduce:

 1. lpadmin -p test -m foomatic:HP-LaserJet_4Si-ljet4.ppd -v file:/tmp/test.out -E
 2. lp -d test -o job-sheets=standard <some-pcl-file>

Actual results:

  <some-pcl-file> isn't printed.  Only the banner page is printed.

Expected results:

  Both banne and PCL file should print.

Additional info:

  This was fixed in:

    Raw printing with multiple files and/or banners does not work
    https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/1933

  but unfortunately this commit:

    https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/c6e4e712

  which was added to fix:

    https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/4782

  caused a regression resulting in the re-appearance of this issue.

  Test script and proposed patch to follow.

  This likely exists in RHEL 9 and upstream.
Comment 2 Bryan Mason 2021-07-15 23:01:58 UTC 
Created attachment 1802121 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 4 Bryan Mason 2021-07-15 23:13:20 UTC 
Created attachment 1802122 [details]
Fixed patch

Oh rats!  Forgot to clean up *~ before running diff.  Fixed in this patch.
Comment 5 Bryan Mason 2021-07-15 23:45:42 UTC 
Upstream PR: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/pull/209
Comment 6 Zdenek Dohnal 2021-07-16 08:50:16 UTC 
Hi Bryan,

thank you for the investigation, the patch, the test and the upstream PR!

To be honest, I haven't seen anyone yet which would have sent a PCL file to CUPS ... ok, looked into [0] better and it seems it is a variant of this comment[1], where the user sends a postscript file to CUPS, which he got from some scripts...

Would you mind finding out the customer's use case with PCL files? What is his reason for sending PCL files instead of text/PDF files?

I'm asking because such customers are the good candidates for cooperation during testing of hp-printer-app[3] or CUPS ippeveprinter, which will cover printing PCL files to the device.

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Ad the issue - I can reproduce with your steps, the patch LGTM, I'll verify if it works next week.
Ad the test - I briefly checked your test - I'll try to upstream some parts which can be put in CUPS, however the exact test with banners will need to stay downstream, because it needs banners from cups-filters :( .


[0] https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271
[1] https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271#issuecomment-708317666
[2] https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5271#issuecomment-710916833
[3] https://github.com/michaelrsweet/hp-printer-app
Comment 8 Zdenek Dohnal 2021-08-25 12:04:52 UTC 
*** Bug 1996102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Bryan Mason 2021-08-31 00:32:25 UTC 
Upstream PR merged:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/pull/209
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/commit/20f681de54a1f2dc13d6d0270f4c99110fa940e7
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 15:21:27 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (cups bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:2032
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