Re: `Filter failed' no print error message

From	Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: `Filter failed' no print error message
Date	2017-03-26 19:50 +0200
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Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina [2017-03-07 15:41:54Z] wrote:
>
>> Thanks, `cups' alone was enough. Now the printer seems to be
>> configured. But it does not print, and, when I get into `jobs', I see
>> they are stopped with "Filter failed" claim. What can I do? Please
>> help. Thanks.
>
> I had a "filter failed" problem too in Debian 8 and solved it by
> installing newer ghostscript package from Debian testing. This bug
> report looks familiar:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848876
>
> In case you want to try that and you are using Debian 8 you could
> proceed with this:
>
>  1. Add Debian testing repository to /etc/apt/sources.list file:
>
>         deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
>
>  2. Run: apt update
>
>  3. Run: apt install ghostscript/testing
>
>  4. Remove the "deb" line from sources.list file.
>
>  5. Run: apt update

Thanks for your suggestion, but ghostscript is already installed in
my system, which is Sid...  So I don't think testing woul do do any better...

Rodolfo

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Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 19:20 +0100
  Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 19:30 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 20:10 +0100
      Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:00 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 21:10 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:20 +0100
          Correction: Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:40 +0100
            Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-03-04 23:00 +0100
              Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 23:50 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 08:00 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 19:30 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:00 +0100
          Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 21:40 +0100
            Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 22:40 +0100
              Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 00:10 +0100
                Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 08:10 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 16:00 +0200
  Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:10 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:50 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-05 22:00 +0100
      `Filter failed' no print error message (was: Printing packages) Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 16:50 +0100
        Re: `Filter failed' no print error message (was: Printing packages) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 18:10 +0100
          Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 22:10 +0100
            Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-12 00:30 +0100
              Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-13 17:30 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2017-03-13 20:10 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-13 21:00 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 19:30 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-25 13:10 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 19:00 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-26 22:00 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 23:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 00:50 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 08:50 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 13:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 15:40 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 17:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 18:20 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 19:30 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 20:20 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-13 21:10 +0100
        Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-03-25 14:30 +0100
          Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 19:50 +0200

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