cups not working with 12xxw; filter output lost somewhere?

[Saulius Menkevičius]

OK, I cannot make it to print.
Using command line;
"cat test.ps | gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pbmraw -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -r1200x600 -sOutputFile=- - | min12xxw -m 1200W -f a4 -r 1200x600 -p normal -t auto > /dev/usblp0"

prints perfectly.

My ppd file shows:
*FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -sDE&&
VICE=pbmraw%A%Z -sOutputFile=- - | min12xxw%B"

And cups error_log shows this:

D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22]
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] renderer PID kid4=6883
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] renderer command: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pbmraw -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -r1200x600 -sOutputFile=- - | min12xxw -m 1200W -f a4 -r 1200x600 -p normal -t auto
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] LANGUAGE = (unset),
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] LC_ALL = (unset),
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] LANG = "en"
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] are supported and installed on your system.
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:01 +0200] [Job 22] foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dNOPAUSE' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dBATCH' '-sDEVICE=pbmraw' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595' '-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842' '-r1200x600' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:02 +0200] [Job 22] ESP Ghostscript 815.01 (2005-09-22)
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:02 +0200] [Job 22] Copyright (C) 2004 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:02 +0200] [Job 22] This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:02 +0200] [Job 22]
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:02 +0200] [Job 22] Closing renderer
D [14/Mar/2006:23:53:02 +0200] [Job 22] KID3 exited with status 0

So i think it has been redered ok, it's just the output hasnt been piped to /dev/usblp0. Or am I wrong somewhere?

Any hints on how to fix it?

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

You can debug foomatic-rip to find out if rendering worked ok.
Edit /etc/foomatic/filter.conf and set debug: 1.
After printing something check the file /tmp/foomatic-rip.log.

[Saulius Menkevičius (saulius-menkevicius)]

here it is, but i don't know how to interpret or whether if there is anything to interpret at all...

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

In you output I see -sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3. This file does not exist on my Dapper installation.
Could it have anything to do with this?
I don't have any idea what /dev/fd/3 is.

[Saulius Menkevičius (saulius-menkevicius)]

As I see it, it's UNIX file descriptor number, specific for each process. It changes depending on which process you are listing the /dev/fd directory on. For example:
root@highland:/dev/fd# ls -l
total 4
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2006-03-21 22:22 0 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2006-03-21 22:22 1 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2006-03-21 22:22 2 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 2006-03-21 22:22 255 -> /dev/pts/1
or
bob@highland:/dev/fd$ ls -l
total 4
lrwx------ 1 bob bob 64 2006-03-21 22:21 0 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------ 1 bob bob 64 2006-03-21 22:21 1 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------ 1 bob bob 64 2006-03-21 22:21 2 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------ 1 bob bob 64 2006-03-21 22:21 255 -> /dev/pts/1

This is because /dev is mounted as a "virtual" udev file system on ubuntu.

In this case it's probably used internally in some way to receive more than 2 streams (apart from stdout(1) and stderr(2)) from the 'gs' process.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Do you still have this problem with latest cupsys 1.2.1-0ubuntu2 update?
If so please attach: /var/log/cups/error_log and output of dmesg.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Can you try out what I have suggested here:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/23461

[Saulius Menkevičius (saulius-menkevicius)]

Funny, it works :)
Thanks!

[Saulius Menkevičius (saulius-menkevicius)]

Can be closed now. Works on edgy without any hacks.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

New foomatic-filters fixed it (see bug #23461).