Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:51:39 -0700 From: Dennis Glatting <freebsd@pki2.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups-filters 1.13.4 failures Message-ID: <1490593899.92309.115.camel@pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJuc1zOp=eABfVYHEp7aGNHbfpO7k6Vbbs8krcJ2jwFYVVK%2BBQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJuc1zOp=eABfVYHEp7aGNHbfpO7k6Vbbs8krcJ2jwFYVVK%2BBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 18:37 +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I recently updated to cups-filters 1.13.4, and it appears that I now > cannot print PDF files. The port is built with the default options. > The logs indicate: > > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] Running command line for > pdftops: pdftops -level3 /var/spool/cups/tmp/0410d58dfd707 - > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] Started filter pdftops (PID > 16655) > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] Unable to execute pdftops > program: No such file or directory > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] Started filter pstops (PID > 16656) > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] PID 16655 (pdftops) stopped > with status 1! > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] The print file is empty. > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] PID 16656 (pstops) stopped > with status 1! > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] Sent 0 bytes... > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] Waiting for read thread to > exit... > D [27/Mar/2017:17:24:32 +1300] [Job 631] PID 16653 > (/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops) stopped with status 1. > > I am not sure why its complaining that pdftops is not there because > both the filter and the main program are there: > 6:27pm# ls -l /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 36672 25 Mar 15:05 > /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops > 6:32pm# ls -l /usr/local/bin/pdftops > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18744 8 Jan 13:43 /usr/local/bin/pdftops* > > Is the filter looking for pdftops in the wrong place? > > 6:36pm# strings /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pdftops | grep > bin.pdftops > /usr/bin/pdftops > I have the same problem and traced it to something between pdftopdf and pdftops (pdftopdf exits with no errors). Pdftopdf creates a file in /var/spool/cups/tmp but when pdftops is called the file doesn't exist. No idea why. Changing permissions didn't help. Truss didn't help. To my surprise, swearing didn't help either. > Cheers.
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