Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 457679
foomatic strips special characters from PPD file name
Last modified: 2008-09-28 14:43:36 EDT
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
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.
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.
Please attach /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-6Pecon.ppd.
Created attachment 313293 [details] PPD Could the problem be that there are square brackets in the file name?
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.
(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.
Reported upstream: http://bugs.linux-foundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169
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
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
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
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
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.
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.