Bug 234723 – net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1 Unable to execute /usr/libexec/cups/filter/rastertoprinter: No such file or directory

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Tuomas Jäntti 2008-08-14 11:21:08 UTC]

During system and world update my cups was updated from 1.2.6 to 1.3.7-r1

Emerge was successful. I have also run etc-update and revdep-rebuild as the postinst message requested.

Cups gets started up on boot as before successfully.

When I try printing I get the error message:

E [14/Aug/2008:13:48:55 +0300] Unable to execute /usr/libexec/cups/filter/rastertoprinter: No such file or directory
E [14/Aug/2008:13:48:55 +0300] [Job 658] Unable to start filter "rastertoprinter" - No such file or directory.

The printer does not print. (Canon BJC-3000)




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install net-print/cups-1.3.7-r1
2.Try printing anything (The printer test page will do)
3.

Actual Results:  
Error messaged.
Printer does not produce output.

Expected Results:  
No error message.
Printer prints given job 8)

Others have had similar problems. But I did not find a bug report on the problem. 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-688007-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-rastertoprinter+missing.html

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:34:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa avi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fdftk ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick imap ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kerberos ldap libnotify live mad matroska matrox mbox midi mikmod mime mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real reflection scanner sdl session simplexml smartcard sockets spell spl ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xanim xine xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Tuomas Jäntti 2008-08-14 11:28:08 UTC]

Created attachment 162881 [details]
Cups error log

[Comment 2 Tuomas Jäntti 2008-08-14 12:22:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)

To fix the problem on my system was quite simple after all:

1. Browse to http://localhost:631/admin
2. Select Administration - Add Printer
3. Install the printer that did not print
4. Select - Printers - Delete Printer
5. Delete the faulty printer installation.

I suggest an information message to the emerge info be added.

[Comment 3 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) 2008-08-14 14:44:22 UTC]

You probably also upgraded gimp-print/gutenprint during your world update since older versions shipped the mentioned filter "rastertoprinter". The recent ppd file for your printer now makes use of the "rastertogutenprint.5.1" filter:

$ zcat /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.1/C/stp-bjc-3000.5.1.ppd.gz | grep cupsFilter
*cupsFilter:    "application/vnd.cups-raster 100 rastertogutenprint.5.1"

Gutenprint should normally take care of automatically updating your ppd files nowadays by running /usr/sbin/cups-genppdupdate.5.x in the pkg_postinst() phase of the ebuild.