Bug 327041 – www-client/chromium-5.0.375.86 doesn't print to attached printer

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description O. William McClung 2010-07-05 20:10:49 UTC]

When I print to an attached printer, chromium fails to print. The printer light does not flash to indicate it was receiving bytes. By contrast, firefox prints normally. www-client/chromium-bin-5.0.376.0_p44320 has the same non-printing behavior.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to reproduce:
1. Choose "Print" from the chromium menu.
2. Choose the attached printer from the resulting pop-up
3. Press the "Print" button the pop-up

Actual results:
Printer light fails to flash and printer does not receive a print job.

Expected results:
Printer would print the displayed chromium Web page.

Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.33-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:45:03 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.10
dev-lang/python:     2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.1.2, 4.3.4, 4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
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.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa also amd64 apache2 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode exif fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk hal iconv imap ipv6 jpeg kde lcms ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg symlink sysfs tcpd tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa fbdev vga" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

/var/log/cups/access_log has:
ocalhost - - [05/Jul/2010:09:04:44 -0500] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 433 CUPS-Get-Printers successful-ok 
localhost - - [05/Jul/2010:09:04:44 -0500] "GET /ppd/Epson.ppd HTTP/1.1" 200 75643 - - 
localhost - - [05/Jul/2010:09:04:44 -0500] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 433 CUPS-Get-Printers successful-ok <repeated 108 times> 
localhost - - [05/Jul/2010:09:05:06 -0500] "POST /printers/Epson HTTP/1.1" 200 239190 Print-Job client-error-document-format-not-supported

/var/log/cups/error_log has:
I [05/Jul/2010:09:05:06 -0500] [Job ???] Request file type is application/pdf.

[Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-07-13 02:02:13 UTC]

Note possibly related bug #309901.

According to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6349099.html#6349099 updating to cups-1.4.4 fixes the problem. I'd appreciate it if someone could confirm this.

[Comment 2 O. William McClung 2010-07-13 04:32:17 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Note possibly related bug #309901.
> 
> According to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6349099.html#6349099
> updating to cups-1.4.4 fixes the problem. I'd appreciate it if someone could
> confirm this.
It does fix the problem. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285166 for some cups-1.4.4 idiosyncrasies.

[Comment 3 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-07-13 14:53:46 UTC]

Thanks for confirming this worked. Let's keep the bug open for a while so I can update the dependency.

[Comment 4 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-07-17 19:49:19 UTC]

Thanks for the report. Fixed in dev channel releases only because cups-1.4.4 is still unstable.