16 Nov 2015 berend   » (Journeyer)

Weirdest error today with printing. Upgraded my FreeBSD (source recompiled of 10.2p6), after that wanted to print from my recently upgraded Ubuntu 15.10 desktop. Didn't want to print, got: "Filter failed" in cups jobs screen. First I thought it was due to the FreeBSD upgrade, but after a while I figured out an Ubuntu 12.04 laptop still printed fine, as well as a PC-BSD 10.2 laptop.

Error messages on FreeBSD cups server were not very helpful, with things like:

(/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/rastertopdf) stopped with status 1.
Or
prnt/hpcups/HPCupsFilter.cpp 530: cupsRasterOpen failed, fd = 0
Anyway, after I discovered it must be my recently upgraded Ubuntu 15.10, and I probably hadn't tried to print after that, tried to remove and reinstall the printer. That didn't help. The final magic was a suggestion:
lpadmin -p HP-LaserJet-cm1415fnw -m raw
After that thinks worked, weird, weird, weird.

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