• Re: Sarge not printing [WORKAROUND]

    From Kevin B. McCarty@1:229/2 to Kevin B. McCarty on Sat Aug 14 04:50:08 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.user
    From: [email protected]

    On 08/12/2004 05:03 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
    For what it's worth, I started experiencing the same problem beginning perhaps a couple weeks ago. The weird thing is that my cluster is
    running woody except for a few backports! One of them was gs 7.07, so I downgraded back to the gs in woody, but still no luck. I haven't found
    a solution yet.

    After a couple hours looking more deeply into this, I found part of the problem. (This was made slightly easier because I'm running woody +
    backports, so the number of possible culprits was relatively small.)
    Apparently the semantics of sed changed slightly between 4.0.9-5 and
    4.1-1, causing something that uses sed in the long pipeline from "lpr -> apsfilter -> gs -> printer" to break. So a workaround is to downgrade
    sed to version 4.0.9-5 or earlier, which should result in printing via apsfilter working once again.

    Still researching which package Bug 258042 should be reassigned to --
    right now it appears to be one of {sed, a2ps, psutils}.

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    Kevin B. McCarty <[email protected]> Physics Department
    WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University
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