Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.27~dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Most print jobs fail with "filter failed". Only acroreader is able to
print PDF files.
The entry in /var/log/cups/error_log is:
D [09/Apr/2019:20:17:06 -0400] [Job 1747] GPL Ghostscript 9.27:
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
D [09/Apr/2019:20:17:06 -0400] [Job 1747] Process is dying with \"Unable
to determine number of pages, page count: -1
D [09/Apr/2019:20:17:06 -0400] [Job 1747] \", exit stat 3
The errors started on Apr 6:
zgrep "Unable to determine" error*
error_log:D [09/Apr/2019:20:17:06 -0400] [Job 1747] Process is dying with
\"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
error_log:D [09/Apr/2019:20:20:50 -0400] [Job 1748] Process is dying with
\"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
error_log.2.gz:D [07/Apr/2019:17:51:43 -0400] [Job 1741] Process is dying
with \"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
error_log.3.gz:D [06/Apr/2019:09:11:42 -0400] [Job 1736] Process is dying
with \"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
error_log.3.gz:D [06/Apr/2019:09:12:33 -0400] [Job 1736] Process is dying
with \"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
error_log.3.gz:D [06/Apr/2019:09:23:30 -0400] [Job 1737] Process is dying
with \"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
error_log.3.gz:D [06/Apr/2019:09:35:34 -0400] [Job 1738] Process is dying
with \"Unable to determine number of pages, page count: -1
root@home:/var/log/cups#
I may not have printed between 3/31 and 4/6.
Updates on 4/1 included:
Start-Date: 2019-04-01 19:38:30
Commandline: apt-get -y upgrade
Requested-By: jrv (1000)
Upgrade:
libcups2:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
libcups2:i386 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups-server-common:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups-common:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups-ppdc:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups-bsd:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups-core-drivers:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups-daemon:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
libcupsimage2:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups-client:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
cups-ipp-utils:amd64 (2.2.10-4, 2.2.10-5),
End-Date: 2019-04-01 19:47:02
Updates on 4/4 included:
Start-Date: 2019-04-04 21:24:21
Commandline: apt-get -y upgrade
Requested-By: jrv (1000)
Upgrade:
ghostscript-doc:amd64 (9.26a~dfsg-2, 9.27~dfsg-1),
ghostscript:amd64 (9.26a~dfsg-2, 9.27~dfsg-1),
ghostscript-x:amd64 (9.26a~dfsg-2, 9.27~dfsg-1),
End-Date: 2019-04-04 21:28:54
cups-filters has not been upgraded since at least 3/1.
I found these in my backups:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94436 Apr 9 21:00
/tmp/ghostscript_9.26a~dfsg-2_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3449200 Apr 9 21:00
/tmp/ghostscript-doc_9.26a~dfsg-2_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 90360 Apr 9 21:00
/tmp/ghostscript-x_9.26a~dfsg-2_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26948 Apr 9 21:00
/tmp/libfile-slurp-perl_.26-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2197888 Apr 9 21:00
/tmp/libgs9_9.26a~dfsg-2_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5135548 Apr 9 21:00
/tmp/libgs9-common_9.26a~dfsg-2_all.deb
After downgrading to those versions, printing works again.
I conclude that the last version of Ghostscript is (at least) incompatible
with CUPS.
- Jim Van Zandt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-8
ii libgs9 9.26a~dfsg-2
Versions of packages ghostscript recommends:
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.4
Versions of packages ghostscript suggests:
ii ghostscript-x 9.26a~dfsg-2
-- no debconf information
