HP LJ 1018 regression in hardy

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical)]

Binary package hint: hplip

My HP LJ 1018 has worked just fine in previous versions of Ubuntu, but in hardy, it's a complete mess and barely working at all.

Starting from a clean slate (with firmware downloaded), I switch the printer on and get the following log messages:

Apr 14 12:18:00 quest kernel: [254842.737086] usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 31
Apr 14 12:18:00 quest kernel: [254842.889081] usb 1-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Apr 14 12:18:00 quest kernel: [254842.892132] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 31 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x4117
Apr 14 12:18:00 quest NetworkManager: <debug> [1208171880.995840] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_4117_KP0VDES').
Apr 14 12:18:01 quest NetworkManager: <debug> [1208171881.061359] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_0_0_0000_00_02_1_if0_0').
Apr 14 12:18:01 quest /usr/sbin/hplj1018: foo2zjs: loading HP LaserJet 1018 firmware /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1018.dl to /dev/usb/lp0 ...
Apr 14 12:18:01 quest /usr/sbin/hplj1018: foo2zjs: ... download successful.

So far, so normal.

I go into System -> Admin -> Printing and click "New Printer". This generates the following log messages:
Apr 14 12:20:09 quest kernel: [254970.828899] ppdev0: registered pardevice
Apr 14 12:20:09 quest kernel: [254970.877792] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
Apr 14 12:20:09 quest kernel: [254971.001225] ppdev0: registered pardevice
Apr 14 12:20:09 quest hp: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Apr 14 12:20:09 quest kernel: [254971.053160] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
Apr 14 12:20:11 quest kernel: [254973.176825] ppdev0: registered pardevice
Apr 14 12:20:11 quest python: io/hpmud/pp.c 627: unable to read device-id ret=-1
Apr 14 12:20:11 quest kernel: [254973.214098] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice

Which I assume is related to LPT, so that's fine. The first device in the resulting list is "HP LaserJet 1018 USB KP0VDES HPLIP"; Forward gives me HP; Forward gives me HP LaserJet 1018 Foomatic/foo2zjs and then the printer is set up. I get the following log message (probably irrelevant?):

Apr 14 12:21:30 quest cupsd[6104]: *** WARNING *** The program 'cupsd' uses the Apple Bonjour compatibility layer of Avahi.
Apr 14 12:21:30 quest cupsd[6104]: *** WARNING *** Please fix your application to use the native API of Avahi!
Apr 14 12:21:30 quest cupsd[6104]: *** WARNING *** For more information see <http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=cupsd>

So now I try and print something. File -> Print, leave the defaults, and ...

Apr 14 12:22:33 quest HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP0VDES: prnt/backend/hp.c 496: unable to connect hpssd socket 2207: Connection refused
Apr 14 12:22:33 quest kernel: [255115.603496] usblp0: removed
Apr 14 12:22:33 quest kernel: [255115.563506] audit(1208172153.987:35): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6232 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
Apr 14 12:22:34 quest foo2zjs-wrapper: foo2zjs-wrapper -P -z1 -L0 -r1200x600 -p9 -s7 -m1 -n1
Apr 14 12:22:41 quest foo2zjs-wrapper: gs -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -g9920x7016 -r1200x600 -sDEVICE=pbmraw -dCOLORSCREEN -dMaxBitmap=500000000
Apr 14 12:22:41 quest foo2zjs-wrapper: foo2zjs -r1200x600 -g9920x7016 -p9 -m1 -n1 -d1 -s7 -z1 -u 192x96 -l 192x96 -L 0 -P
Apr 14 12:23:02 quest HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP0VDES: prnt/backend/hp.c 496: unable to connect hpssd socket 2207: Connection refused

but nothing comes out of the printer.

Those first two lines and the last line look pretty suspicious to me.

It's probably worth noting that in previous releases, I never used HPLIP for this printer and it was set up direct to USB.

[Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount)]

Scott,

Please add the user to the scanner group and configure the printer using hp-setup -ai and it should resolve this, if not post your results.

Aaron

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

User already in scanner group.

Printer is owned by lp/scanner:

quest scott% lsusb
Bus 001 Device 031: ID 03f0:4117 Hewlett-Packard

quest scott% ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/031
448950 0 crw-rw---- 1 lp scanner Apr 14 12:23 /dev/bus/usb/001/031

First attempt with hp-setup -ai (no change since error above)

Using connection type: usb

--------------------
| DEVICE DISCOVERY |
--------------------

error: No devices found.
error: Error occured during interactive mode. Exiting.

then tried:
1) Sytem -> Admin -> Printing
2) deleted existing printer
3) stopped cups
4) switched printer off
5) made sure nothing lp/cups/hpy was running
6) started cups again
7) switched printer back on
8) confirmed still owned by lp/scanner

/dev/usb/lp0 reappears with the reset owned by root/lp:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root lp 180, 0 2008-04-14 16:42 /dev/usb/lp0

Ran hp-setup -ai again:

usb, saw the printer this time:

Using device: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP0VDES

A plug-in is required for this printer. (selected download), looked like it downloaded a bunch of stuff:

/usr/share/hplip/base
/usr/share/hplip/base/async.pyc
/usr/share/hplip/installer
/usr/share/hplip/installer/core_install.pyc
/usr/share/hplip/installer/dcheck.pyc
/usr/share/hplip/installer/__init__.pyc
/usr/share/hplip/prnt
/usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins
/usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/lj.so
/usr/share/hplip/data
/usr/share/hplip/data/plugins
/usr/share/hplip/data/plugins/hp_laserjet_1018.plugin
/usr/share/hplip/data/plugins/plugins.conf
/usr/share/hplip/data/firmware

Then it did:

Using queue name: HP_LaserJet_1018

Found a possible PPD file: lsb/usr/hpijs/HP/hp_laserjet_1018-hpijs.ppd
Desc: HP LaserJet 1018 Foomatic/hpijs-ZJS (recommended)

Adding print queue to CUPS:
Device URI: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP0VDES
Queue name: HP_LaserJet_1018
PPD file: lsb/usr/hpijs/HP/hp_laserjet_1018-hpijs.ppd
Location:
Information: Automatically setup by HPLIP

Ok...

Then it tried to print a test page, and gave:

error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP0VDES
error: Unable to print to printer. Please check device and try again.

In syslog, I see:

Apr 14 16:44:45 quest python: io/hpmud/musb.c 135: unable get_string_descriptor -32: Broken pipe
Apr 14 16:44:45 quest python: io/hpmud/musb.c 603: invalid product id string ret=-32
Apr 14 16:44:45 quest python: io/hpmud/musb.c 1058: unable to open hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP0VDES
Apr 14 16:44:45 quest python: hp-testpage[10534]: error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12): hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1018?serial=KP0VDES
Apr 14 16:44:45 quest python: hp-testpage[10534]: error: Unable to print to printer. Please check device and try again.

The green and red lights on the printer are both flashing.
Switched it off and on again, syslog contains:

Apr 14 16:47:35 quest kernel: [270998.307073] usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 33
Apr 14 16:47:35 quest kernel: [270998.459254] usb 1-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Apr 14 16:47:35 quest logger: loading hp_laserjet_1018 firmware 001 033
Apr 14 16:47:35 quest kernel: [270998.462325] usblp0: USB Bidirectional pri...

[Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount)]

Please run hp-check -t and post the output.

Thanks!

Aaron

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Ran hp-check immediately after hp-setup -ai (which still failed to produce a test page).

[Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount)]

Several things...

You are using hplip 2.8.2. Please install hplip 2.8.4 from hplip.net

Also you are missing many required dependencies. Installing hplip 2.8.4 should resolve these problems.

A

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

hp 2.8.2 is what's available in Ubuntu.

What is the fix from 2.8.4 that you expect to fix my problem, we could be able to backport the patch to 2.8.2 in Ubuntu

[Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount)]

We haven't been able to reproduce this...so if possible upgrade and see if you have better results. 2.8.4 wont be backported that I know..if Till is monitoring this he may be able to give an update or information on this.

A

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

I have done some tests and the problem seems to be the following:

The printer works perfectly if you instal EITHER the firmware from the foo2zjs site (with "getweb" and "arm2dl") OR from HP (with "hp-setup"). If your system has both firmware files and also both UDEV rules files and upload scripts, the firmware is tried to get uploaded twice which makes the printer crash. The red lines blinks alone for a longer time and then the green light goes on.

You should get back to a working state by deactivating the firmware file from foo2zjs with

sudo chmod -r /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1020.dl

and then turning off and turning on the printer again, so that only HP's firmware uploader uploads the firmware. Then the printer should print.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Thanks very much, Till.

That does seem to have solved the problem.

What would be the correct way to have set up this printer? I let the automagic do it originally, that doesn't invoke hp-setup?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Spoke to soon.

I got two test pages out of it before the printer stopped working again, and it stubbonly will not print anymore.

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

I have the same/very similar problem.

hp-check -t in attachment and dmesg below:

[ 152.397590] process `skype' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
[ 296.722264] audit(1214002129.774:4): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6055 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 303.934480] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110
[ 314.161753] audit(1214002147.210:5): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6073 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 320.949601] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110
[ 404.674692] audit(1214002237.718:6): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6100 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 411.561670] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110
[ 436.083451] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 436.129169] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
[ 436.293052] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 436.340679] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
[ 439.892904] ppdev0: registered pardevice
[ 439.940438] ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
[ 573.151141] audit(1214002406.218:7): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6177 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 579.723816] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110
[ 654.554255] audit(1214002487.630:8): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6200 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 661.257135] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110
[ 687.556605] audit(1214002520.638:9): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6224 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 694.808507] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110
[ 722.476988] audit(1214002555.562:10): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6252 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 728.542727] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110
[ 1231.580352] audit(1214003064.730:11): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6336 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 1238.326370] usb 1-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110
[ 1342.070512] audit(1214003175.234:12): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a::" denied_mask="a::" name="/dev/tty" pid=6399 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 1343.034480] audit(1214003176.198:13): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="::rw" denied_mask="::rw" name="/dev/tty" pid=6414 profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" namespace="default"
[ 1418.480322] audit(1214003251.654:14): type=1503 operation="inode_permission" requested_mask="a::" denied_mask="a::"...

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

I don't know what I've changed by printers work fine!

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

It happened again!

I canceled printing one of PDF and printer stopped to print and system started complain that it might not be connected.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

For the record, this is what happens to me too.

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

And again.

This time I turned printer after starting machine (indeed just before printing). The queue in cups website and in lpq looked fine (job was waiting).
I think next I tried following step
- restart cups
- restart printer
- restart computer (printer turn on)
- re-establish printer in cups

It didn't help. I gave up and turned computer & printer off. Today during initialization of system printer finally started to print.

Do you think it might mean that firmware has been updated???

[jan (jan-ubuntu-h-i-s)]

How to determine if this is not the firmware, but a low-level usb communication problem ?, like:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/218921

[zertz (zertz)]

I'm having the same issues in Hardy. i get the flashing warning light which eventually turns to red. all the known ways to get this printer working in ubuntu, do not work. i have tried running hp-lip, and that did not resolve my problem.

[zertz (zertz)]

for what its worth, this exact same problem with laserjet 1018 exists in intrepid beta without any known fix. blinking red light that turns to green, etc. i sudo chmod -r that one file however i'm not sure what else to do. in intrepid's hp-setup -ai it does not download what it needs. so not cool.

the future of the planet deponds on this printer working in intrepid. say it aint so

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Metooing.

Seeing this problem since upgrading to Intrepid. The printer worked fine in Hardy, where I didn't use HPLIP, but it was automatically installed in Intrepid. Has anyone found a solution?

I too am seeing this in my dmesg:

[ 114.412525] usb 2-2: usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd hpijs rqt 161 rq 1 len 1 ret -110

[pablomme (pablomme)]

My problem went away after removing Intrepid and installing Hardy, using the HPLIP Toolbox to install the firmware.

In Intrepid the printer is left in a bad state, and even the BIOS gets stuck for a few minutes during boot-up while trying to recognize the USB devices. I assume this is so because of bad firmware being sent to the printer. Indeed, turning the printer off for a while removes the BIOS problem until the first reboot --but of course this doesn't make the printer work.

I could conceivably test the printer with Intrepid in the next few days. If someone can think of something to try out, please let me know.

[Rick Richardson (rick-richardson)]

Follow ALL instructions on:

http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/

[pablomme (pablomme)]

That appears to work on Intrepid even after a reboot. What is the difference with the Intrepid driver?

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

Clean installation of 8.10 and still not working. What worst the system pretender to find the proper driver but nothing work :(

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

It seems that in 8.10 the following file is broken

 /usr/sbin/hplj1018

It looks for lp in /dev/usb and should in /dev. I didn't save the original one so I cannot provide patch at the moment.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Would this be the diff you're talking about, then?

--- hplj1018.old 2009-02-11 22:53:13.000000000 +0000
+++ hplj1018 2009-02-11 22:53:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
     #
     # Sniff around for printers that need a firmware download
     #
- usblps=`find /dev/usb -name lp*`" "`find /dev -name usblp*`
+ usblps=`find /dev -name lp*`" "`find /dev -name usblp*`
     for dev in $usblps; do
  status=`$PRINTERID $dev 2>/dev/null | grep -y "hp LaserJet $MODEL"`
  if [ "$status" != "" ]; then

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

2009/2/11 pablomme <email address hidden>:
> Would this be the diff you're talking about, then?
>
> --- hplj1018.old 2009-02-11 22:53:13.000000000 +0000
> +++ hplj1018 2009-02-11 22:53:29.000000000 +0000
> @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
> #
> # Sniff around for printers that need a firmware download
> #
> - usblps=`find /dev/usb -name lp*`" "`find /dev -name usblp*`
> + usblps=`find /dev -name lp*`" "`find /dev -name usblp*`
> for dev in $usblps; do
> status=`$PRINTERID $dev 2>/dev/null | grep -y "hp LaserJet $MODEL"`
> if [ "$status" != "" ]; then
>

Looks familiar, but I changed the path in two places in line 32 and 203.

Wawrzek
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[pablomme (pablomme)]

Lines 32 and 33 are:

DEV=/dev/usb/lp0
DEV=""

So whatever value DEV takes in line 32 is irrelevant. I'm intrigued as to why line 32 is there at all..

[dwelch91 (dwelch91)]

/usr/sbin/hplj1018 is not part of HPLIP. Please remove HPLIP project from
"also affects" list. Thanks.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> It seems that in 8.10 the following file is broken
>
> /usr/sbin/hplj1018
>
> It looks for lp in /dev/usb and should in /dev. I didn't save the
> original one so I cannot provide patch at the moment.
>
> --
> HP LJ 1018 regression in hardy
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217215
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of HP Linux
> Imaging and Printing, which is subscribed to HPLIP.
>

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

@dwelch91:
I've changed the status to Invalid for HPLIP. I'm not entirely sure about it as HP1018 won't work with hplip without change in /usr/sbin/hplj1018.

@palomme:
Yes you are right, I spent so long time to fix it that for any case I changed all of /dev/usb entries.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

@Wawrzek: does the printer work correctly if you make the change you proposed?

[pablomme (pablomme)]

By the look of it, the printer wouldn't work. The script hplj1018 in the foo2zjs tarball Rick Richardson suggested using is exactly the same (save for the location of usb_printerid). That package seems to work fine, so I think the script should not be the problem. I agree there's no chance of it finding the printer as per line 203, but it appears this is not required since the alternative foo2zjs works. Something else in Ubuntu's foo2zjs is broken.

What is the reason why this foo2zjs package is not used in Ubuntu? From the documentation I suspect it's a potential patent problem, but could someone confirm?

Indeed, the warning "DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from: Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, Xandros, EEE PC, Linpus, MacOSX, or BSD!" seems to indicate that Ubuntu is hardly the only distribution not to use this package, so there must be a good reason...

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

The situation is more complicated.

Short description.

There are two HP 1018 in my family (mostly because they should work
fine with Linux).
I have HP1018 in UK and my father in Poland. I think that until now
both of them didn't use Ubuntu packages.

Recently I reinstalled my Ubuntu and tried if the problem was fixed in
Ubuntu. After some attempts with HP Toolbox printer started to work.

In the meantime my father Ubuntu 8.04.1 crashed so badly that we had
to reinstall it. So I tried follow HP Toolbox path once more (HPLIP
guarantee support for HP 1018). We spent few hours without success. I
think that the problem was that we couldn't download firmware.

I decided to compare list of files with 1018 in a name on my father
and mine computer. I found one of following files missing on his:

/usr/share/hplip/data/firmware/hp_laserjet_1018.fw.gz
/usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/HP-LaserJet_1018.xml
/usr/share/ppd/hpijs/HP/hp_laserjet_1018-hpijs.ppd
/usr/share/ppd/foo2zjs/HP-LaserJet_1018.ppd.gz

I copied it, but it didn't help.

After some time I tried to ran
/usr/sbin/hplj1018

on my father computer and it failed so I compared the files and fixed
my father one. After that printer started to work.

But it isn't working today. There are a lot of error message during
(slow) system start.

What I going to do:
Remove from my machine all the printer specific package and files and
start again.

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

Small update:

> But it isn't working today. There are a lot of error message during
> (slow) system start.
>

My father reported that he
- turn off printer
- restart the computer
OS start was fast and clean
- turn on the printer
Printer worked fine

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[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

[...]
> Printer worked fine
>
I was too prompt. It didn't worked. Next step download firmware.
Helped but no entirely.

This time it might be HPLIP fault, but I need to perform. Further tests.
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[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

Further test on 8.10 described in bug 329898

[Mindaugas B. (embar-super)]

Now works HP LaserJet 1018 for me: I have downloaded firmware from http://embar.wen.ru/html/bylos/linux/hp/sihp1018-dl.zip and extracted this archive. I put the file sihp1018.dl in /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware directory. I have installed hplip, hp-ppd, hplip-data, hpijs, foo2zjs, libcupsimage2-dev packages (I don't know what of thees are necesary).

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

On Jaunty (with all updates) the firmware files for the HP printers which need a firmware file get automatically loaded when one sets up these printers with system-config-printer which makes the printer immediately working. The firmware gets download as part of the HPLIP plugin, so you need HPLIP to be able to use the files out of the box (by uncompressing, moving/linking, and renaming you could use them also with foo2zjs). Please try it out.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

I can confirm that on Jaunty the 1018 works out fine of the box. It has be working consistently since the RC.

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański (wawrzek)]

As written in bug 329898 9.04 still broken. Seems not only for me:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/70481