Not possible to generate PPDs with foomatic-ppdfile

[Pascal De Vuyst]

I'm using dapper 20060420.
foomatic-db 20060408-1ubuntu1

Executing the following command for generating HP PPDs from package foomatic-db does not work
$ foomatic-ppdfile -p "printer/HP-DeskJet_520"

The following error is shown:

foomatic-ppdfile -p "printer/HP-DeskJet_520"
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08178918 ***
Entity: line 2058: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
  </printer>
            ^
printer 'printer/HP-DeskJet_520' not found!

Also executing the following command gives the same error and does not list HP printers:
$ foomatic-ppdfile -A

Generating these PPDs was possible in Ubuntu dapper before.

[Glenn Morse (glenn-sonication)]

When creating a printer with KDE Print (in this case, a remote CUPS printer), I got a very similar error:

ScimInputContextPlugin()
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08179528 ***
Entity: line 2499: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
  </printer>
            ^
printer 'Samsung-ML-1710' not found!
kdeprint: WARNING: PPD syntax error, PPD parse failed

This is indeed a serious problem, if people can't create printers!

[James Tatum (jtatum)]

This may be resolved in foomatic-db 20060408-1. Debian bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360785

[James Tatum (jtatum)]

It seems that version has already been integrated into the current Dapper repos. I am having the same issues as the reporter with the Postscript driver:

$ foomatic-datafile -t cups -d Postscript -p HP-LaserJet_4300
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08178838 ***
Entity: line 2058: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
  </printer>
            ^
printer 'HP-LaserJet_4300' not found!

[James Tatum (jtatum)]

Rolling back to the prior foomatic-db did work for me:

$ wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/foomatic-db/foomatic-db_20050720-1_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i foomatic-db_20050720-1_all.deb

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

foomatic-db is synced with the latest Debian package and still posses this issue.

[Anthony Mercatante (tonio)]

Confirmed here too:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08179528 ***
Entity: line 2499: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
  </printer>
            ^
printer 'Lexmark-Z32' not found!
kdeprint: WARNING: PPD syntax error, PPD parse failed

[Anthony Mercatante (tonio)]

latest debian version just got in ubuntu.
It resolves this issue.

If you still have problems with it, clean the driver database :
sudo foomatic-cleanupdrivers

then restart kdeprint, and that will work ;)