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    From Haines Brown@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 27 20:30:01 2024
    I upgraded to testing, but had a problem with the testing version
    of CUPS, so downgraded CUPS to its stable version.

    Can't print because printer is paused. It is paused because
    my printer is paused because:

    "File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/gstopxl" not available: No such file
    or directory"

    The problem is that I do have this filter in /usr/lib/cups/filter/

    $ ls -la | grep gstopxl
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 558 Aug 19 00:57 gstopxl

    I have installed:

    i cups -
    i A cups-browsed
    i cups-bsd
    i A cups-client
    i A cups-core-drivers
    i A cups-daemon
    i A cups-filters
    i A cups-filters-core-driver
    i A cups-ipp-utils
    i A cups-pk-helpe
    i A cups-ppdc
    i A cups-server-common
    i A libcups2t64
    i A libcupsfilters1t64
    p printer-driver-cups-pdf:i386
    i A python3-cups
    i A libcupsfilters1t64
    i A python3-cupshelpers
    i A libcupsfilters1t64
    c printer-driver-cups-pdf
    i A python3-cups
    i A python3

    It looks like the printer-driver-cups-pdf package is not installed,
    but I dont see how that could force the printer to pause. be the

    --

    Haines Brown

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  • From Michael =?utf-8?B?S2rDtnJsaW5n?=@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 27 20:50:01 2024
    On 27 Aug 2024 14:06 -0400, from haines@histomat.net (Haines Brown):
    I upgraded to testing, but had a problem with the testing version
    of CUPS, so downgraded CUPS to its stable version.

    How, _exactly_, did you perform that downgrade?

    In effect, it sounds like what you have now is a mix of Bookworm and
    Trixie. (More generally, a mix of Stable and Testing.) That is an
    unsupported and not-recommended configuration which can lead to any
    number of issues.

    https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian

    Your best bet _might_ be to upgrade back to Testing, and then roll
    forward with that and either see if there's a fix, or submit a bug
    report to the package maintainers through the Debian bug tracker.

    In the specific case of the current situation, I wouldn't be the least
    bit surprised if the time_t 64-bit (see those "t64" in the package
    list?) transition is causing problems for you, but there's no way to
    tell for sure based on your post because you don't include any logs,
    nor any package version numbers or other identifying details, nor any
    details on your configuration. Running `ldd` on the problematic binary
    and showing the output of that might also prove instructive.

    --
    Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

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  • From Charles Curley@21:1/5 to Haines Brown on Wed Aug 28 03:30:02 2024
    On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:06:48 -0400
    Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote:

    I upgraded to testing, but had a problem with the testing version
    of CUPS, so downgraded CUPS to its stable version.

    Can't print because printer is paused. It is paused because
    my printer is paused because:

    "File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/gstopxl" not available: No such file
    or directory"

    The problem is that I do have this filter in /usr/lib/cups/filter/

    $ ls -la | grep gstopxl
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 558 Aug 19 00:57 gstopxl

    I have installed:

    i cups -
    i A cups-browsed
    i cups-bsd
    i A cups-client
    i A cups-core-drivers
    i A cups-daemon
    i A cups-filters
    i A cups-filters-core-driver
    i A cups-ipp-utils
    i A cups-pk-helpe
    i A cups-ppdc
    i A cups-server-common
    i A libcups2t64
    i A libcupsfilters1t64
    p printer-driver-cups-pdf:i386
    i A python3-cups
    i A libcupsfilters1t64
    i A python3-cupshelpers
    i A libcupsfilters1t64
    c printer-driver-cups-pdf
    i A python3-cups
    i A python3

    It looks like the printer-driver-cups-pdf package is not installed,
    but I dont see how that could force the printer to pause. be the


    I see:

    root@hawk:~# apt-file search gstopxl
    cups-filters: /usr/lib/cups/filter/gstopxl
    root@hawk:~# ls -l $( locate gstopxl )
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 558 May 19 2023 /usr/lib/cups/filter/gstopxl root@hawk:~#

    So gstopxl is from the package cups-filters, which you have installed.
    Your listing agrees with mine as to the permissions, ownership, and
    length of the file but not the date. I conjectured that that is the date
    of installation, or, in my case, upgrade.

    Mine is from Bookworm.

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    Does anybody read signatures any more?

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  • From Haines Brown@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 28 14:40:01 2024
    On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 06:42:48PM +0000, Michael Kjrling wrote:
    On 27 Aug 2024 14:06 -0400, from haines@histomat.net (Haines Brown):
    I upgraded to testing, but had a problem with the testing version
    of CUPS, so downgraded CUPS to its stable version.

    How, _exactly_, did you perform that downgrade?

    In effect, it sounds like what you have now is a mix of Bookworm and
    Trixie. (More generally, a mix of Stable and Testing.) That is an
    unsupported and not-recommended configuration which can lead to any
    number of issues.

    https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian

    Worse that that!c I inadvertantly upgraded from stable to testing! The
    problem not CUPS but having to downgrade back to stable.

    This is a challenge, and I know my best bet would simply be to back
    up everything and install the stable release on a new new drive. Or I could install
    stable on an external HD, clean the principle disk and then
    re install stable to it. But there are a couple of reasons this must
    be a last resort. I'll first try the usual procedure to downgrade,
    despite all its challenges.

    --

    Haines Brown

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  • From Hans@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 28 15:20:01 2024
    Hi,
    just an idea: take a look at /var/log/cups/errors.log. Had the same problem, here it was a missing lib. The log file might tell you more.

    Hope this helps.

    Best

    Hans

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