On Fri 02 Jun 2017 at 16:38:42 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I have an HP Color Laserjet CP1215 printer attached to a Jessie server via > USB. I'm trying to print to it from Stretch workstation. This has been > failing for a long time now. It's not a new problem. I've tried removing the > printer and re-finding it many times without success.
We presume the re-finding is done via the CUPS web interface or something similar. Is cups-browsed running on the client? systemctl status cups-browsed > I'm using the HP Color LaserJet CP1215 Foomatic/foo2hp (recommended) driver > on both the server and my workstation. However when I try printing anything > from the workstation, it fails with a "Filter failed" message. The message > appears on the CUPS Jobs page on both the workstation and server. > > I can print directly from the server (e.g. test page using the CUPS Printers > page or lp from the command line) but not from my workstation. > > I can print to another printer (Samsung C410) attached to the server, also > by USB, using the same protocol (dnssd:) and it works. The major difference > is that the it's using the Samsung C410 Series (color) driver. > > The cups error log on the server isn't helpful. The first message that it > shows for a failing job is: > > E [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Job stopped due to filter errors; > please consult the error_log file for details. Unfortunately, the code that reports the terminating state of the job does not have the name of the process that failed, which gets logged separately. > Further down it shows these interesting messages: > > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Printing system options: > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Pondering option > 'job-uuid=urn:uuid:33ae3777-92ed-3ade-5cc3-a52464b726bc' > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Unknown option > job-uuid=urn:uuid:33ae3777-92ed-3ade-5cc3-a52464b726bc. > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Pondering option > 'job-originating-host-name=192.168.1.24' > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Unknown option > job-originating-host-name=192.168.1.24. > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Pondering option > 'time-at-creation=1496427439' > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Unknown option > time-at-creation=1496427439. > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Pondering option > 'time-at-processing=1496427439' > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Unknown option > time-at-processing=1496427439. > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] CM Color Calibration Mode in CUPS: > Off > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Options from the PPD file: > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] > ================================================ > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] File: /var/spool/cups/d02241-001 > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] > ================================================ > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Cannot process > "/var/spool/cups/d02241-001": Unknown filetype. The server has been sent a file by the client which cannot be MIME typed. > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] Process is dying with "Could not > print file /var/spool/cups/d02241-001 > D [02/Jun/2017:14:17:27 -0400] [Job 2241] ", exit stat 2 > > Any ideas? The Printing section on the wiki deals with "Double Filtering". It might help. -- Brian.
