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and subject line Re: printer-driver-cups-pdf: /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf 
crashes with signal 11 and no additional information.
has caused the Debian Bug report #1041085,
regarding printer-driver-cups-pdf: /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf crashes with 
signal 11 and no additional information.
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Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf
Version: 3.0.1-14
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
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Installed with apt.
Modified cups-pdf.conf to print to ${HOME}/tmp/cups-pdf
Attempt to print.
"Backend failed"
Increased cupsd.conf LogLevel to "debug"
Attempt to print.
"Backend failed"
Deleted PDF printer from cups
Forced reinstall of printer-driver-cups-pdf
Attempt to print.
"Backend failed"
Remove edit from cups-pdf.conf (e.g. back to default destination)
Attempt to print.
"Backend failed"
Attempt to find command line invocation in order to perhaps see a more useful 
error message.
invoke:

# lpstat -p -d
printer isxerox-8145 is idle.  enabled since Fri 14 Jul 2023 12:54:50 PM EDT
printer PDF is idle.  enabled since Fri 14 Jul 2023 01:24:33 PM EDT
        Backend failed
system default destination: PDF

Most information from /var/log/cups/error_log:

D [14/Jul/2023:12:59:27 -0400] [Job 7] PID 963955 
(/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) exited with no errors.
D [14/Jul/2023:12:59:27 -0400] [Job 7] PID 963956 
(/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf) crashed on signal 11.
W [14/Jul/2023:12:59:27 -0400] [Job 7] Backend returned status -139 (crashed)

A little frustrating because there is so little information; but I will happily 
execute anything you request.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 
'bookworm-fasttrack'), (100, 'bookworm-backports-staging')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf depends on:
ii  cups            2.4.2-3
ii  cups-client     2.4.2-3
ii  ghostscript     10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u1
ii  libc6           2.36-9
ii  libcups2        2.4.2-3
ii  libpaper-utils  1.1.29

printer-driver-cups-pdf recommends no packages.

Versions of packages printer-driver-cups-pdf suggests:
ii  system-config-printer  1.5.18-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

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Fair enough. Closing.

ti 23.6.2026 klo 22.54 Eric W. Bates ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
>
> The machine which could never run the pdf driver has been erased and is
> now running Ubuntu and the pdf driver works fine.
>
> Never did get it to work; but it was probably some sort of error on my part.
>
> On 6/22/26 02:37, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:46:22 -0400 "Eric W. Bates" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Package: printer-driver-cups-pdf
> >> Version: 3.0.1-14
> > You reported a bug against a version of CUPS-PDF that dates back from
> > several Debian releases ago.
> >
> > Does the issue still apply to what's currently in Trixie?
> >
> > -- Martin-Éric
>
>
> --
> 508/243-8341
>

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