[SOLVED] "Filter Failed"

nphuracm · 2022-09-21 06:00:20

Yes, "Filter failed."

I know this issue is notorious. I tried many fixes on the Internet, updated epson-inkjet-printer-escpr, restarted and reinstalled CUPS over and over again but no avail AT ALL.

I would like anyone here to post ALL possible fixes to this problem. I'd be EXTRA appreciated.

My setup:
Kernel (linux) 5.19.9
cups latest as of 2022.9.21
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr 1.7.21-1
Epson L3153

Last edited by nphuracm (2022-09-30 06:48:46)

seth · 2022-09-21 06:50:05

Raise the loglevel, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Troubleshooting
Then restart cups and check the log.

And fix your caps lock.

nphuracm · 2022-09-23 01:39:58

https://0x0.st/oW-B.bin
this is the error_log. restarted cups (through systemctl) and printed a test page.

seth · 2022-09-23 06:23:42

Whatever you posted is from july 5th and 6th, doesn't cover any attempt to print anything and ends in some binary data junk.

progandy · 2022-09-23 09:43:26

seth wrote:

Whatever you posted is from july 5th and 6th, doesn't cover any attempt to print anything and ends in some binary data junk.

It continues after the binary data until 23/Sep/2022:09:37:36 +0800.

curl "https://0x0.st/oW-B.bin" | less

seth · 2022-09-23 15:40:28

D [17/Sep/2022:23:28:45 +0800] [Job 15] PID 385624 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster) exited with no errors.
D [17/Sep/2022:23:36:39 +0800] [Job 16] gstoraster (application/vnd.cups-pdf to application/vnd.cups-raster, cost 99)
D [17/Sep/2022:23:36:39 +0800] [Job 16] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster (PID 396968)
D [17/Sep/2022:23:36:39 +0800] [Job 16] PID 396968 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster) stopped with status 1.

epson-escpr-wrapper has always failed

D [23/Sep/2022:09:37:05 +0800] Queue EPSON_L3150_Series uses a printer driver, which is deprecated.
W [23/Sep/2022:09:37:05 +0800] Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS. See https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/103

There're error messages from gs (I assume) but in chinese, and broken utf8 encoding (?)
All I could make out is "There is a grammatical error nearby"
=> Set the system locale to english, reboot and see what happens and whether we maybe get a more informative log.

nphuracm · 2022-09-24 02:21:35

https://0x0.st/oWaM.txt
I set both the KDE system language's first priority to English and also /etc/locale.conf but it doesn't seem like I actually prevented Chinese from appearing. I also erased error_log before posting.

seth · 2022-09-24 06:36:23

/usr/bin/gs:行1

would be

/usr/bin/gs: Line 1

So

/usr/bin/gs: Line 1 未预期的符号“$\'F\\313I\\326܌\\302\\326k\\251\\3444@\\026\\001\\177\\274\\375fPȃ5\'”附近有语法错误

means (?)

unexpected symbol '$\'F\\313I\\326\\302\\326k\\251\\3444@\\026\\001\\177\\274\\375fPȃ5\' There is a grammatical error nearby

what smells as if gs was a shell script, but it's not supposed to be.

What's the output of

file $(realpath /usr/bin/gs)

pacman -Qikk ghostscript

nphuracm · 2022-09-25 02:48:59

seth wrote:

What's the output of

file $(realpath /usr/bin/gs)

pacman -Qikk ghostscript

BEFORE pacman -Syyu:

/usr/bin/gsc: data

Name            : ghostscript
Version         : 9.56.1-1
Description     : An interpreter for the PostScript language
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.ghostscript.com/
Licenses        : AGPL3  custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libxt  libcups  fontconfig  zlib  libpng  libjpeg  jbig2dec  libtiff  lcms2
                  dbus  libpaper  ijs  openjpeg2  libidn
Optional Deps   : texlive-core: needed for dvipdf
                  gtk3: needed for gsx [installed]
Required By     : epson-inkjet-printer-escpr  epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2  ghostpcl  ghostxps
                  graphviz  libspectre
Optional For    : cups-filters  gimp  imagemagick  libmagick6
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 47.37 MiB
Packager        : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Tue 05 Apr 2022 03:44:29 AM CST
Install Date    : Wed 06 Jul 2022 05:44:17 AM CST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

error: error while reading file /var/lib/pacman/local/ghostscript-9.56.1-1/mtree: Unrecognized archive format
ghostscript: no mtree file

AFTER pacman -Syyu:

/usr/bin/gsc: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=0a8bbfcfba3e64ed2c4e23eb70462c9446e64e55, for GNU/Linux 4.4.0, stripped

Name            : ghostscript
Version         : 10.0.0-1
Description     : An interpreter for the PostScript language
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.ghostscript.com/
Licenses        : AGPL3  custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libxt  libcups  fontconfig  zlib  libpng  libjpeg  jbig2dec  libtiff  lcms2
                  dbus  libpaper  ijs  openjpeg2  libidn
Optional Deps   : texlive-core: needed for dvipdf
                  gtk3: needed for gsx [installed]
Required By     : epson-inkjet-printer-escpr  epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2  ghostpcl  ghostxps
                  graphviz  libspectre
Optional For    : cups-filters  gimp  imagemagick  libmagick6
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 45.10 MiB
Packager        : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Fri 23 Sep 2022 12:55:43 AM CST
Install Date    : Sun 25 Sep 2022 10:54:23 AM CST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

ghostscript: 561 total files, 0 altered files

No avail though.
Restarted CUPS and when I printed a test page it froze at some sort of 'sending data to printer' thing.

Last edited by nphuracm (2022-09-25 03:04:09)

seth · 2022-09-25 05:56:59

The database and file corruption suggests that there're probably more errors and "pacman -Syyu" will not necessarily resolve all of them.

LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files'

In general this hints at a corrupted filesystem, possibly an unreliable disk, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A. … st_results (smartctl -a)
Given the known corrupted package, I currently doubt that your problems have anything to do with printing…

nphuracm · 2022-09-25 13:44:13

pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files': https://0x0.st/oWJI.txt
(The massive amount of warnings wrote to STDERR were not included in this log)
(ignore the 'nullpomino' package; i modded it)

smartctl: https://0x0.st/oWJU.txt

I'm having a bad feeling about this.

Last edited by nphuracm (2022-09-25 13:46:39)

seth · 2022-09-25 14:03:33

There were some disk errors, but they're ~88 days (runtime) ago.
Nevertheless you lost package integrity and many packages have "altered" files that shouldn't.

Try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … dependency? to sanitize that and pay attention to IO errors in dmesg (eg. if there're bus errors for a bad/loose cable, those would not show up in the SMART data)

nphuracm · 2022-09-30 06:50:09

SOLVED.

A failed pacman -Syyu broke my system and I moved to iPXE archiso and reinstalled all available packages with overwrite. After that the issue was resolved.

Last edited by nphuracm (2022-09-30 06:52:17)

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