Print test page gives an error message "unsupported format: application/postscript"

Please provide the output of the following command on a terminal for some useful printing related debugging information:
apport-collect -p cups 385606

Could you also provide a cups error log with LogLevel=debug with the karmic ghostscript package installed as described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems#cupserrorlog

Thanks!

Install the "ghostscript-cups" package to get printing back working. Looks like that we have to add it to one of the seeds.

ghostscript-cups should be added to the same seeds in which cups is.

It should become a dependency of cups, IMHO.

Committed to bzr.

To completely fix this bug all packages which provide CUPS Raster drivers (cups-driver-gutenprint, splix, hplip-cups) and the lsb package (because the LSB requires that the CUPS Raster driver interface is present) must have a "Depends: ghostscript-cups". Therefore I have added appropriate tasks now.

This bug was fixed in the package hplip - 3.9.4b-1ubuntu4

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hplip (3.9.4b-1ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added ghostscript-cups dependency. (LP: #385606)

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:03:49 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package splix - 2.0.0-0.1ubuntu8

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splix (2.0.0-0.1ubuntu8) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added ghostscript-cups dependency (LP: #385606).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:16:49 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package gutenprint - 5.2.3-2ubuntu2

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gutenprint (5.2.3-2ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added ghostscript-cups dependency to the
    cups-driver-gutenprint package (LP: #385606).
  * debian/control: Added dependencies on cups and cups-client to the
    foomatic-db-gutenprint package to assure that automatic updates of
    the PPDs of existing print queues really take place.

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:01:49 +0200

The change for the lsb package is simple. The debdiff is attached.

This bug was fixed in the package cups - 1.3.10-4

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cups (1.3.10-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add ghostscript-cups dependency. (LP: #385606)
  * debian/control: Add back dropped comma, which led to the ssl-cert
    dependency being dropped. (Closes: #532845)
  * debian/local/apparmor-profile: Allow reading /proc/sys/crypto/**.
    (LP: #335898)
  * debian/local/apparmor-profile: Allow dac_override to cups-pdf. This is
    unfortunate, but required with some $HOME permissions; the profile is very
    tight, so this shouldn't actually considerably increase privileges.
    (LP: #224365)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:32:28 +0200

@ all:

thanks guys. Now all is ok and functioning.

@ pascal de vuyst:

sorry, I had no time to give those commands that the problem was yet resolved :-).

Bye all, and thanks again.

Reopening lsb task, the fixed lsb package is not yet uploaded.

This bug was fixed in the package lsb - 4.0-0ubuntu2

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lsb (4.0-0ubuntu2) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added ghostscript-cups dependency (LP: #385606).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:43:49 +0200

created an ubuntu 16.04 and attempted to install a cups printer driver that works on earlier versions of ubuntu and when attempting to do a test print got an "Unsupported format 'application/postscript'! error message