cups-pdf not printing; already error during chosing virtual printer in leafpad

[Juanito]

cups, cups-pdf and hplip all work for me "straight out of the box", so I'm guessing something is missing somewhere.

What does this give:

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$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster

[netnomad]

as i mentioned i have a similar problem:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11016.0.html

but it depends what program wants to use cups,
some print fine, others "print empty pages".

$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster

i get::
tc@box:~$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header

[Juanito]

tc@box:~$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header

Sorry, pstoraster is a script, not an app - I'm out of ideas as to why it doesn't work for you.

[floppy]

as i mentioned i have a similar problem:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11016.0.html

but it depends what program wants to use cups,
some print fine, others "print empty pages".

$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster

i get::
tc@box:~$ ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header

me too..  ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header

Complement: I am starting cups with a script after boot, anytime during a session (not on demand; not at boot).

Name: quickprint.sh
Content:
tce-load -i /mnt/hda2/tce/optional/cups-pdf.tcz
tce-load -i /mnt/hda2/tce/optional/hplip-2.7.tcz
sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/cups start

In my .filetool.lst I have
...
/usr/local/etc/cups/ppd   (with virtual_pdf and hp4100..PPD .. in it)
/usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf
/usr/local/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf
/etc/shadow
...

and:
printers.conf is empty. Perhaps I should delete it from .filetool.lst?
cups-pdf.conf is the original file ( I did not modify anything today.. perhaps again the OUT parameter later when pdf printing is running).

[Juanito]

me too..  ldd /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
/usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster: invalid ELF header

Again, that was my mistake - ldd is for apps/libs and not scripts - pstoraster is a script.

Since the hp4110 is supported by hplip, I'm guessing you're missing an extension or you didn't select the cups driver (as opposed to user supplied ppd) during the "add printer" dialogue with the cups browser interface.

After setting the log level to debug in cupsd.conf and restarting cups, does the error log show anything useful?

[floppy]

What dio you mean this is a script?
should I do "sh /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster.sh" in a terminal  ?
I will check your new suggestions when I am at my desktop.

[Rich]

Hi floppy
A script is like a batch file.

[Juanito]

Here's what I get:

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$ lpr -P Virtual_PDF_Printer cairo.tcz.info
$ ls -l /var/spool/cups-pdf/tc
total 12
-rw-------    1 tc       staff         9005 Sep 16 10:28 cairo_tcz_info.pdf
and:

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$ /usr/local/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster
INFO: Starting GPL Ghostscript 9.00...
DEBUG: Running /usr/local/bin/gs -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dNOMEDIAATTRS -sDEVICE=cups -sstdout=%stderr -sOUTPUTFILE=%stdout -c  -f -_
INFO: Start rendering...
INFO: Processing page 1..... I guess it stops at this point since it has no data to work on

Edit: These extensions are loaded: ghostscript, ghostscript_common, hplip-2.7, cups, cups-pdf, libcups, libusb

[Onyarian]

I have load cups-pdf in tc 4.0.2 and don't work without the ghostscript_common.tcz extension loaded, so I think is necessary to put this extension in the dep file of cups-pdf.tcz.
Without this extension gives the "empty file" error.

[Juanito]

One of the many "issues" I've found with cups is knowing which deps go with which of the many different ways of printing using cups - locally, as a network client, hplip, gutenprint, custom OEM ppd, etc, etc

I probably needed ghostscript_common for some other reason and so didn't see this dep - added

[netnomad]

i can confirm that cups-pdf is working,
but i succeeded only to a fullworking cups-environment with my own dep-file.

i packaged a cups_meta with following deps:

foomatic-rip.tcz
ghostscript_common.tcz
ghostscript.tcz
gutenprint.tcz
cups.tcz
cups-pdf.tcz

[Juanito]

..which illustrates the point:

I don't need foomatic-rip nor gutenprint
but I do need hplip-2.7

..and from a client pc printing over the network, I need only cups

 

[curaga]

And for what I intend, the client won't even need cups, only busybox (OT sorry)