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Bug 3848 - CUPS 1.1.15 requires ghostscript patch
Summary: CUPS 1.1.15 requires ghostscript patch
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Grant Goodyear (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-06-18 11:02 UTC by Robert Davis
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Robert Davis 2002-06-18 11:02:19 UTC 
Cups 1.1.14 worked fine.  Upgraded to 1.1.15.  Configuration was the same but
couldn't print.  cups error_log had message Unable to convert file 0 to
printable format.  Looking on the Cups newgroup the program pstoraster that used
to be included is not anymore and you need a patch to ghostscript or ESP
GhostScript.
Comment 1 Matt Behrens 2002-06-23 19:01:18 UTC 
I can confirm this (though not confirm in bugzilla).  CUPS 1.1.14-r4 works, and
does not have this problem.
Comment 2 Robert Jan Schutten 2002-06-23 20:34:23 UTC 
I can confirm this bug...
No printing for me anymore. It looks like it that the filters need to be added
from another ghostcript package...
Comment 3 Robert Jan Schutten 2002-06-23 20:48:00 UTC 
What I wanted to say before (but I forgot):
It is probably best to mask cups-1.1.15 intill this problem is solved.
Comment 4 Nicolas Kaiser 2002-06-26 19:24:51 UTC 
I can confirm this problem as well. Going back to CUPS 1.1.14-r4 solved it for me.
I possibly found a patch for 1.1.15 at 
http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?Gcups.development+U309+D+O151+VR
It appears to address exactly this problem.
Comment 5 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-28 13:08:04 UTC 
The patch in comment #4 doesn't seem to work.  Continuing to look....
Comment 6 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-28 15:49:00 UTC 
Emerging the latest ghostscript should fix the problem.  Ick!
Comment 7 Peter Borgmann 2002-07-31 12:32:15 UTC 
I can not confirm bug status as confirmed. Cups 1.1.15 is still not running with
my HP880C and I have to use 1.1.14 instead.
Comment 8 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-08-06 16:49:47 UTC 
Weird.  Try "emerge -e cups" and see if that fixes the problem?
Comment 9 Chris Sorisio 2002-08-07 16:05:46 UTC 
I attempted Grant's advice - emerge -e cups - and to my surprise..it worked! 
This fixed it.  I, too, was unable to use anything but cups 1.1.14, but now I
can use 1.1.15-r2 without a problem.

Thanks!
Comment 10 Navid 2002-08-13 17:12:18 UTC 
Still doesn't work for me. I even tried emerge -e cups. It installs latest
ghostscript. But I still get the Unable to convert file 0 error. I made sure I
did an rsync before. I'm forced to downgrade the lab to 1.1.14-r4 and it works
with that version with no problems.
Comment 11 Andreas Kotowicz 2002-08-15 08:46:51 UTC 
I have latest ghostscript installed - cups 1.1.15 still won't work
Comment 12 TGL 2002-08-16 20:46:02 UTC 
I've submitted an ebuild for ghostscript-7.05.4:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6618

Can you please test it to see if it solves your problem?

Thanks,

-- Thomas.
Comment 13 Nick Hadaway 2002-09-18 17:01:56 UTC 
ghostscript-7.05.5 has been added into portage.  Please test this package with 
cups.  All drivers have been compiled in including the optional IJS and OMNI 
printer drivers.
Comment 14 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-09-22 18:29:11 UTC 
Closing for now.  Thanks, raker!