cups printing doesn't work anymore (rastertoprinter missing)

[mani74]

Hi all

since my last emerge -uDN world, printing does not work anymore. When browsing http://localhost:631/printers/LaserJet5 I get the error message and the printer is offline:

"Filter "rastertoprinter" for printer "LaserJet5" not available: No such file or directory"

installed software:

marco@pingu ~ $ eix gutenprint
[I] net-print/gutenprint
Available versions: 5.1.4 ~5.1.7 {cups foomaticdb gimp gtk ppds readline}
Installed versions: 5.1.4(10:48:59 04/07/0(cups gimp readline -foomaticdb -gtk -ppds)
Homepage: http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net
Description: Ghostscript and cups printer drivers

marco@pingu ~ $ eix -e cups
[I] net-print/cups
Available versions: 1.2.12-r4 1.2.12-r7 ~1.3.6-r3 ~1.3.7 {X acl avahi dbus java jpeg kerberos ldap linguas_de linguas_en linguas_es linguas_et linguas_fr linguas_he linguas_it linguas_ja linguas_pl linguas_sv linguas_zh_TW nls pam perl php png ppds python samba slp ssl static tiff zeroconf}
Installed versions: 1.2.12-r7(07:41:25 04/12/0(X dbus jpeg pam png ssl tiff -ldap -nls -php -ppds -samba -slp)
Homepage: http://www.cups.org/
Description: The Common Unix Printing System

marco@pingu ~ $ eix ghostscript
[I] app-text/ghostscript-esp
Available versions: 7.07.1-r8 8.15.3 8.15.4 8.15.4-r1 {X cjk cups djvu gtk threads xml}
Installed versions: 8.15.4-r1(22:47:49 04/11/0(X cups xml -cjk -djvu -gtk -threads)
Homepage: http://www.cups.org/espgs
Description: ESP Ghostscript -- an enhanced version of GPL Ghostscript with better printer support


emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:32:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1
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
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1
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="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-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 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phpmyadmin/libraries"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /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/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/"
LC_ALL="C"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/home/marco/files/bindist"
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="/home/marco/files/ebuilds"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gimp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer hal iconv isdnlog jpeg mad midi mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt3support quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl session spl sse ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv 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 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" CAMERAS="canon directory" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="trident vesa"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[chainsawbike]

ran revdep-rebuild?

[mani74]

yes, I ran revdep-rebuild before posting. didn't change anything.

recently I even emerged gutenprint again and saw the following error (I think with my last emerge -uDN world, gutenprint got installed, before, the package was called gimpprint). So merging gutenprint generated the following error:

* Updating installed printer ppd files
/etc/cups/ppd/BJC7000.ppd: this PPD file cannot be upgraded automatically (only files based on Gutenprint 5.0.0 and newer can be)
/etc/cups/ppd/JaserJe4050#2.ppd: this PPD file cannot be upgraded automatically (only files based on Gutenprint 5.0.0 and newer can be)
/etc/cups/ppd/LaserJet5.ppd: this PPD file cannot be upgraded automatically (only files based on Gutenprint 5.0.0 and newer can be)
* Failed to update any PPD files

[rishi]

You are not alone in this one...

I'm getting the exact same problems here, including the rastertoprinter error and PPD file version problem.

I've tried creating new printers, that seems to get rid of the PPD problem but printing still won't work.

Has something major changed in the printer config / settings for cups etc? I can't find any changes in the printing Howto.

Post back if you find a way to solve this problem. Cheers,
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Rishi
Melbourne, Australia.

[tuxian]

Try ghostscript-gpl instead of ghostscript-esp!

[OldTango]

While I didn't get the same type of errors. CUPS PRINTING on my LAN went from printing garbage on one printer to not being able to print at all on any printer. No amount of editing of the cups config helped the problems I was experiencing in any way. My original post is Here


My solution was to mask the new versions of cups and reinstall version net-print/cups-1.2.12-r7. Once I had it installed and a couple of minor edits, printing on my LAN was back up and working perfectly again.

Looks like its time to file a bug report........................