Package: cups Version: 2.2.5-2 Severity: important (I'm labelling this as "important" because it's wasting large amounts of paper.)
This is a weird bug, and I have little idea how to track down the cause. About a week or so ago, on my Debian testing system, printing commands started producing three copies of every page on my local printer (so a 2-page document would come out at 3 copies of page 1 followed by 3 copies of page 2). This is the case in at least all of the following circumstances: * Connect the printer with a USB cable, print via usb://... * Connect the printer with via ethernet, print via dnssd://... * Print from evince * Print using lpr (eg: echo hello | lpr) * Going to http://localhost:603/ and doing Maintenance -> Print Test Page However, going to http://localhost:603/ and doing Maintenance -> Print SELF Test Page only produces a single page of output! I have updated cups to the latest version today (2.2.5-2), and that has made no difference, and nor has deleting the printer from CUPS and reinstalling it. The PPD files have not changed in about a year (except for the uninstalling and reinstalling, and even that installed an identical copy to the existing PPD file). So I'm at a bit of a loss as to the cause of this. I also don't see anything obvious in the log files, but I may be missing something. Any suggestions? Thanks! Julian -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers stretch APT policy: (500, 'stretch'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cups depends on: ii cups-client 2.2.5-2 ii cups-common 2.2.5-2 ii cups-core-drivers 2.2.5-2 ii cups-daemon 2.2.5-2 ii cups-filters 1.17.9-1 ii cups-ppdc 2.2.5-2 ii cups-server-common 2.2.5-2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.64 ii ghostscript 9.22~dfsg-1 ii libavahi-client3 0.7-3 ii libavahi-common3 0.7-3 ii libc-bin 2.24-17 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libcups2 2.2.5-2 ii libcupscgi1 2.2.5-2 ii libcupsimage2 2.2.5-2 ii libcupsmime1 2.2.5-2 ii libcupsppdc1 2.2.5-2 ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-11 ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-11 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.21-2 ii poppler-utils 0.57.0-2 ii procps 2:3.3.12-3 Versions of packages cups recommends: ii avahi-daemon 0.7-3 ii colord 1.3.3-2 ii cups-filters [ghostscript-cups] 1.17.9-1 ii printer-driver-gutenprint 5.2.13-1 Versions of packages cups suggests: ii cups-bsd 2.2.5-2 pn cups-pdf <none> ii foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db] 20171012-1 pn hplip <none> ii printer-driver-hpcups 3.17.9+repack0-1 ii smbclient 2:4.6.7+dfsg-2 ii udev 235-2 -- debconf information: cupsys/raw-print: true cupsys/backend: lpd, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd