This is a bug report I have recieved from a Debian user. I suspect there
may be some interaction between the two programs that is different now.
I have also attached his next message that has an update.
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Subject: Bug#123348: lprng & ifhp no longer want to play nice - kinda
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Package: lprng
Version: 3.8.1-1
Package: ifhp
Version: 3.4.4-1
Somewhere around lprng 3.8.0 something when horribly awry between the
communication of ifhp and lprng. I've been using the following
printcap for two printers for months without any problems, and now
they both exhibit very odd behavior.
clj4500|HP Color LaserJet 4500
:lp=clj4500%9100
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/clj4500
:filter=/usr/lib/filters/ifhp
:sh:ifhp=model=hp4500
hplj6p|HP LaserJet 6P
:lp=/dev/lp0
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp6p
:filter=/usr/lib/filters/ifhp
:sh:ifhp=model=hp6p
The 6P doesn't have a postscript simm so I had to modify the ifhp.conf
to include ghostscript converters for everything but raw pcl, those
seem to still work fine though, its just the final sending of the data
to the printer that bombs out. So here's where it gets odd, on the 6P
I couldn't print anything, all I ever got from the printer was a
response of,
Filter_status: getting sync using 'pjl echo' at 18:07:48.544
Filter_status: no sync response from printer at 18:07:48.544
It would try 3 times and finally remove the job after 3 failures. So
I added sync@ to my description, then it complained of no pagecount,
so I added pagecount@ (keep in mind this all worked swimingly until
recently without any of the mods) - at this point it started
complaining about not being able to read the device. I rolled lprng
back to the last 3.7 version but it didn't help either which made me
suspect hardware failure. I got fed up and moved the printer to a
different box. At the time I figured it was a parallel port issue.
But then Color LaserJet 4500 started acting weird too and now I'm
really puzzled. The clj4500 still prints PostScript files great - but
now it if its sent plaintext it starts handing me the 'no sync
response from printer' bit. This box is using its ethernet port and
has always been pretty robust. My only thought is that something
changed between the interaction of filters, specifically ifhp, and
lprng recently and its caused a corruption of some kind that maybe
persists between queued jobs (the only way I can explain lprng 3.7 not
fixing the issue). Anyway, there's a newer version of ifhp out, it
might fix the problems, it might not, but I thought I'd throw this out
there.
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Craig Small wrote:
> Would you mind if I forward this bug report to the upstream maintainer?
> He's the author for both these packages.
Not at all, you may want to append the followup which I present now -
after claiming success of postscript printing (and only postscript) to
my hp4500 I was rather annoyed to find that suddenly that stopped
working too, I managed to print a web comic and a random file shortly
before it refused to print ever again. In my frustration I grabbed
the latest ifhp source and compiled it and installed into /usr/local,
told lprng to use that as its filter - and it still didn't work.
This, while disconcerting, was at least consistent. The 4500 being a
fairly versatile beast (compared to the 6p anyway) was only using ifhp
to allow unix folks to take more control over their print options, and
to weed out the odd graphics file that the 4500 doesn't natively
understand. So I simply removed it (ifhp) from the printcap entirely
and now my HP 4500 works fine again, albeit with less control over the
job. So I've managed to avert the wrath of the tree killers for a
while, hopefully whatever bogon lies between lprng and ifhp gets
sorted out.
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next to you may not be who they appear to be, so take precaution."
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