[csw-users] CUPS 1.2.3 problems

[pjama]

Markus Mayer wrote:
> On Saturday, 07 Oct 2006 21:42 +1000, pjama wrote:
> 
>> Well I've taken the plunge and updated from CUPS 1.1.23 to current
>> 1.2.3 and as expected it didn't go smoothly....
>>
>> I've pretty much disabled all access restrictions just to get going
>> so I can tighten it up later however when I "Print Test Page" on a
>> printer configured similarly to previous version I get Error:
>> Unsupported format 'application/postscript'!
>>
>> even lp barfs:
>> # lp /etc/hosts
>> lp: Unsupported format 'text/plain'!
>> #
> 
> 
> Could your problem be related to this bug report?
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381743
> 
> I checked and CSWcups doesn't have pstoraster.convs either. I am
> looking into it to find out why it's missing.
> 

Certainly the symptoms are the same and you are right, the pstoraster.convs file is missing. This file WAS there earlier.... hmmm...thinking...

In my desperation on trying to get this going I removed all printing packages and did a pkg-get -i cups.
I think I deleted espgs but it's not a dependency of cups so wasn't re-installed. The file pstoraster.convs is part of espgs.

ATM I've reverted to 1.1.23 just to keep the users happy.

Cheers
Peter