Re: [Printing-user-general] error closing *main::STDOUT in foomatic 3.0.2-33.3 on FC5

Can you replace your foomatic-rip by the newest one:

wget http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic-rip

Then the problem should go away.

   Till


Toby Blake wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We're in the process of upgrading all our systems from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora
> Core 5.  This also involves going from foomatic 3.0.2-13.4 to 3.0.2-33.3.
> 
> This seems to have introduced an error when testing foomatic with a local
> printer (an HP Deskjet 400).  Just to give a small bit of background, our
> printing system uses LPRng for spooling and foomatic as the filter for certain
> types of printers (typically locally attached ones).
> 
> The printcap is...
> 
> dj400|Test Queue|HP DeskJet 400|My Office:
>     :ppd=/etc/foomatic/lpd/dj400.ppd:
>     :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj400:
>     :lp=/dev/lp0:
>     :if=/usr/bin/foomatic-rip:
>     :sh:
>     :force_localhost:
>     :mx=0:
> 
> and was configured with the command...
> 
> /usr/bin/foomatic-configure -q -n dj400 -N "Test Queue" -L "My Office" -d
> "hpijs" -p "HP-DeskJet_400" -c "file:/dev/lp0" -s "lprng"  -o
> "PrintoutMode=Draft.Gray"  -o "PageSize=A4"
> 
> This exact same setup worked OK under FC3/foomatic-3.0.2-13.4.	Now, however it
> fails to print anything and gives the following output...
> 
> renderer command: gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs
> -
> sIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="DESKJET
> 5
> 40" -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -r300
> -sIjsParams=Quality:Q
> uality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=0
> -dIjsUseOutput
> FD -sOutputFile=- -
> Closing renderer
> foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE'
> '-sDEVI
> CE=ijs' '-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD'
> '-sDeviceMode
> l=DESKJET 540' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595' '-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842' '-r300'
> '-sI
> jsParams=Quality:Quality=1,Quality:ColorMode=0,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenS
> e
> t=0' '-dIjsUseOutputFD' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
> Process dying with "error closing *main::STDOUT", exit stat: 9
>         error: Broken pipe (32)
> KID3 exited with status 0
> KID4 exited with status 9
> Renderer exit stat: 9
> KID3 finished
> Renderer process finished
> Killing process 736 (KID3)
> Process dying with "Error closing renderer", exit stat: 9
>         error: Bad file descriptor (9)
> 
> If I run the above gs commands by hand (both the original and the one generated
> by foomatic-gswrapper) it works fine and sends valid printable pcl to stdout.
> 
> I'd be very grateful if anybody could shed any light on this.
> 
> Cheers
> Toby Blake
> University of Edinburgh