Your message dated Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:51:11 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#605434: narrowed it down to version 1.4.4-5
has caused the Debian Bug report #605434,
regarding upgrade from 1.4.4-3 to 1.4.4-7 breaks postscript printing in emacs
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Package: cups
Version: 1.4.4-7
Severity: normal
Tags: squeeze
The cups packages for squeeze where updated around 11-23-2010. When that
happened, postscript printing from emacs broke. From within emacs I do ps-
print-buffer like I always have, the print job goes to the printer, the page
comes out of the printer but instead of what I wanted, the page says:
ERROR: invalidfont lidfont
OFFENDING COMMAND: ): stringwidth
STACK:
()
/SpaceWidth
# ERRORINFO:
When I use the Debian snapshot archive and downgrade cups to 1.4.4-3, printing
from emacs works correctly again. I only downgraded cups, all of the other
cups packages I left at 1.4.4-7.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.101112 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups
ii bc 1.06.95-2 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii cups-client 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-common 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-ppdc 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration management sy
ii ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2-6 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2 Avahi common library
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcups2 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupscgi1 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsdriver1 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsmime1 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsppdc1 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libijs-0.35 0.35-7 IJS raster image transport protoco
ii libkrb5-3 1.8.3+dfsg-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.23-6 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.24 library for handling paper charact
ii libpoppler5 0.12.4-1.2 PDF rendering library
ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.8 OpenSLP libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-16 userspace USB programming library
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii poppler-utils 0.12.4-1.2 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii procps 1:3.2.8-9 /proc file system utilities
ii ssl-cert 1.0.26 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii ttf-freefont 20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cups recommends:
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.6-1 printer drivers for CUPS
ii foomatic-filters 4.0.5-6 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii ghostscript-cups 8.71~dfsg2-6 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.4.4-7 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-pdf 2.5.0-16 PDF printer for CUPS
ii foomatic-db 20100630-1 OpenPrinting printer support - dat
pn hplip <none> (no description available)
pn smbclient <none> (no description available)
ii udev 164-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
* cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
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--- Begin Message ---
fixed 605434 cups/1.6.3-1
tags 605434 - moreinfo
thanks
On Mon 19 Aug 2013 at 10:36:17 -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote:
> I have upgraded to jessie now. I am current with updates in jessie. I
> tried ps-print again in emacs and it works now. There is quite a bit
> newer version of cups in jessie. Something has fixed it. I don't know
> if it was a cups or emacs update or something else. I can't remember
> exactly when it failed last but I am pretty sure it wasn't that long
> ago.
>
> The two printers that were failing were:
> Infoprint 1870 MFP
> IBM_4312
Not only has cups itself advanced but its filters have seen some changes
and now have their own package, cups-filters. It may very well have been
one of these filters which was acting up at the time.
I'm going to close this report and mark it as fixed in the cups version
in Jessie. Thank you for such a quick response.
Cheers,
Brian.
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