Bug 146420

Summary: cups error when printing PDF: request value too long
Product: [Unmaintained] kdeprint Reporter: Gregor B. Rosenauer <gregor.rosenauer>
Component: generalAssignee: KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: jlayt
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gregor B. Rosenauer 2007-06-05 20:44:41 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 3.5.6, Kubuntu (feisty) 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14)
Compiler:          Target: powerpc-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (ppc) release 2.6.20-16-powerpc

When trying to print PDFs from within konqueror, I sometimes get this error message:
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A print error occurred. Error message received from system:

cupsdoprint -P 'PanasonicLaser' -J '' -H '/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631' -U 'grexe' -o ' copies=1 media=A4,Normal,Upper orientation-requested=3 sides=two-sided-long-edge' '/tmp/kde-grexe/konquerorKRnusb.ps' : execution failed with message:
client-error-request-value-too-long 
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I am using the hpijs5 PCL-driver usually without problems, but kdeprintd/cups is not very stable for me. When printing several documents, the print-system mostly stops working and refuses to print further documents (usually, kdeprintd is not available anymore and I get an error that it cannot be reached, see seperate bugreport).

Using KDE 3.5.6 on MacPPC, but also get similar problems on KDE 3.5.7 on x86.
Comment 1 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-06-06 14:57:41 UTC 
It would be nice if you could upload an example PDF that gives you this error. Otherwise this bug can not be verified easily.

(Note to self: Setting timeout for additional feedback to this bug to 2007-07-01)
Comment 2 Kurt Pfeifle 2007-06-08 19:33:01 UTC 
Please also have a look at bug #146417 (which I closed as INVALID just a few minutes ago). This one also said that kprinter on Kubuntu 3.5.6 on Feisty didn't work properly.
Comment 3 Gregor B. Rosenauer 2007-06-21 11:22:32 UTC 
Sorry the formulation was misleading.
The problem is not with printing existing PDFs, but with producing PDFs using the PDF-driver (e.g. to convert HTML-pages in Konqueror to PDFs).

The bug may be related to bug #40294 (spaces in filename) and bug #145223
 (gs returns errors).

The problem seems to be long filenames and/or filenames with spaces (or maybe also special/accented characters).
Comment 4 John Layt 2011-05-27 18:33:58 UTC 
KDEPrint is obsolete, unmaintained and will never be revived.  Closing all open bugs.