I [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttopdf (PID 3619)
I [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf (PID 3620)
I [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops (PID 3621)
I [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_HL5470DW (PID 3622)
Then I note the following reported…
D [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] Started filter pdftops (PID 3642)
D [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] Started filter pstops (PID 3643)
D [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] Unable to execute pdftops program: No such file or directory
D [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Client 1] HTTP_STATE_WAITING Closing for error 32 (Broken pipe)
D [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Client 1] Closing connection.
D [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] cupsdSetBusyState: newbusy="Printing jobs and dirty files", busy="Printing jobs and dirty files"
D [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] PID 3642 (pdftops) stopped with status 1!
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D [05/Dec/2020:21:02:52 -0500] [Job 35] PID 3621 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops) stopped with status 1.
Regarding the ‘Unable to execute pdftops program: No such file or directory’ message, check that the ‘poppler-tools’ package is installed.
Had installed pattern 32bit some years ago. Did some tinkering when update of cups broke printing a few weeks ago. Got tired of it. Quite different experience when running linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1 once for each of the printers: Answered a few questions and everything worked fine. Packages installed:
That was just the final piece. Other puzzle pieces weren’t installed either. IIRC, this might have been the full list:
cups-filters
glibc-32bit
libstdc++6-32bit
libusb-0_1-4-32bit
poppler-tools
This took much to long to remember all the steps, or make sense of them from the pieces here, on support mailing list, and saved logs. When I try on other PCs I’ll need to make a note, then consider a bug report.
BTW, not only printing and scanning working on original test PC’s 15.2, but also on this 15.1 PC for previously non-working scanning (via YaST2 to find the previously not found 8910 scanner).
On TW, adding the poppler-tools package wasn’t enough. Cups-filters wasn’t installed, and neither any 32-bit packages. Adding glibc-32bit wouldn’t even get a job started for ‘lpr out’. Also adding libstdc++6-32bit didn’t help either, or libusb-0_1-4-32bit. Test page from http://localhost:631/printers/<printername> produces no job. TW error log is 360k.
What printer languages are supported are of no import to me, except for Epson FX, which is why I bought the 5470, so I could at least theoretically use it with my DOS apps that embed printer setup strings in documents.
Lost track of what I’ve done and need to do. Need sleep…
linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.2-1 seemed to work just fine here in TW, but produced no additional/dependency software installed that I can recall (nor printing success).
I’m not sure why you didn’t have the expected CUPS environment installed. The cups-filters package is an intrinsic part of that for any printer support.
The list I have is far longer than that, but maybe that is due to having installed KDE (Plasma 5) or Gnome DE’s. I’ve never needed to install any further packages (especially CUPS components). Some users did need to install glibc-32bit for the 32-bit Brother drivers (as per the thread I linked to already).
I’ve put on hold attempting to get the TW about previously written to print. Now I’m on TW on a different PC trying via YaST2 to install basic print support.
What exactly does “server” mean in the context of YaST2’s description provided for patterns-server-printing? It seems to me each IP printer would be its own server, so any OS installation needs its cups to be no more than a client, if that. IOW, it looks like patterns-server-printing would include unnecessary bloat.
Any host that can accept a print job and communicate to either a USB-connected printer or network-attached printer is acting as a CUPS server, even if the job is originating on the localhost. So most users would already have a working CUPS server environment for printing via a local machine.
The ‘patterns-server-printing’ pattern (a metapackage) would bring in cups (and it’s dependencies) as well as the ‘basesystem’ pattern.
# zypper info --requires patterns-server-printing
Retrieving repository 'packman' metadata ...........................................................................................[done]
Building repository 'packman' cache ................................................................................................[done]
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package patterns-server-printing:
-------------------------------------------------
Repository : openSUSE-Leap-15.2-Oss
Name : patterns-server-printing
Version : 20180302-lp152.6.3
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 54 B
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : patterns-server-20180302-lp152.6.3.src
Summary : Print Server
Description :
This pattern provides all packages necessary for printing. It provides all
needed packages for printing to a locally connected printer, printing using a
remote print server and for setting up a print server.
Requires : [2]
cups
pattern() = basesystem
I’m not sure why this wouldn’t also include ‘cups-filters’ as well, and IMO ‘cups-filters’ should include the requirement for ‘poppler-tools’ I guess.
# /usr/bin/pdftops (provided by poppler-tools)
# is needed (but not required for non-PostScript printers)
# to print PDFs on PostScript printers because in this case
# the CUPS filter chain is:
# /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf
# /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops
# where /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops calls /usr/bin/pdftops
# /usr/lib/cups/backend/...
# see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868148
Recommends: poppler-tools
TW host asa88 also fails to provide any clues to failure that I can recognize, other than HTTP_STATE_WAITING Closing for error 32 (Broken pipe), which as yet hasn’t lead me to anything helpful. Also as yet, no print job has ever shown up in http://localhost:631/printers/<printername>. This error_log is from trying to print test pages from both YaST2 & http://localhost:631/printers/<printername>.
Installed packages from this search look pretty much like that from OP test host ab85m, with a few added by installing the pattern print_server.
# zypper se -i cups popp glibc libstdc pdf 32bit print
...
S | Name | Summary | Type
---+------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
i+ | OpenPrintingPPDs-ghostscript | PPD files from OpenPrinting.org which use Ghostscript built-in drivers | package
i+ | OpenPrintingPPDs-postscript | PPD files from OpenPrinting.org for PostScript printers | package
i | cups | The Common UNIX Printing System | package
i+ | cups-backends | Additional Backends for CUPS | package
i | cups-client | CUPS Client Programs | package
i | cups-config | CUPS library configuration files | package
i | cups-filters | OpenPrinting CUPS filters, backends, and cups-browsed | package
i+ | cups-pdf | Virtual PDF printer for CUPS | package
i+ | glibc | Standard Shared Libraries (from the GNU C Library) | package
i+ | glibc-32bit | Standard Shared Libraries (from the GNU C Library) | package
i | glibc-locale-base | en_US Locale Data for Localized Programs | package
i+ | hl5470dwcupswrapper | Brother HL-5470DW CUPS wrapper driver | package
i | libQt5PrintSupport5 | Qt 5 Print Support Library | package
i | libcups2 | HTTP/IPP communication and printer queue and job library | package
i | libcupsimage2 | CUPS library for working with large images | package
i | libgcc_s1-32bit | C compiler runtime library | package
i | libpoppler-cpp0 | C++ API of the Poppler PDF rendering library | package
i | libpoppler-glib8 | Glib wrapper for the poppler PDF rendering library | package
i | libpoppler103 | PDF Rendering Library | package
i | libqpdf28 | Shared libraries for qpdf | package
i | libstdc++6 | The standard C++ shared library | package
i+ | libstdc++6-32bit | The standard C++ shared library | package
i | linux-glibc-devel | Linux headers for userspace development | package
i | parallel-printer-support | Parallel Printer Support | package
i+ | patterns-server-printing | Print Server | package
i | poppler-data | Encoding Files for use with libpoppler | package
i | poppler-tools | PDF Rendering Library Tools | package
i | print_server | Print Server | pattern
i+ | trinity-kpdf | PDF viewer for Trinity | package
i+ | trinity-tdeprint | Print system for TDE | package
i+ | yast2-printer | YaST2 - Printer Configuration | package
# ls -l /etc/cups/ppd/
...
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 12158 Dec 6 23:54 HL5470DW.ppd
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 12159 Dec 6 23:53 HL5470DW.ppd.O
Please avoid trying to share the output using fm.no-ip.com. None of those you’ve posted so far allow me to view the content. Stick with pastebin or susepaste please.
That’s my own Apache2 running on this machine. All those URLs work for me. I load them, then paste those working URLs into the message. If they’re being denied to others, I need to find out why. Are you blocking http://-only sites somehow?
Susepaste has been a PITA for me, between outright rejections, claimed failures, erroneous claimed successes, latency, short default lifetimes, and more.
These URLS are giving me 404s. Pastebin I don’t even try any more, as it has given me its own set of foibles. Besides, my website is convenient, and should be working, with expiry readily under my control. Maybe you can help me try troubleshooting via IRC, a-865 or a-865k on three different suse channels on freenode.
