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Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis: Updated printing packages available to fix minor bugs
Advisory ID: RHBA-2001:174-11
Issue date: 2001-12-17
Updated on: 2002-02-06
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: printing cut-off pages
Cross references:
Obsoletes:
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1. Topic:
Updates to the printing system are available to fix a collection of minor bugs.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 7.2 - i386, ia64
3. Problem description:
This update fixes the following bugs:
The oki4w driver requires a daemon that Red Hat does not ship. printconf
now warns if this daemon is not running.
Printing to PostScript printers using non-US Letter page sizes sometimes
cut-off pages. This is fixed.
On some printers, large print jobs sometimes halted halfway
through the job. This is fixed.
In some cases, the data cache was not used properly, forcing data to be
regenerated. The fix to the cache layer speeds up starting printconf.
There were some bugs in foomatic which broke some drivers that used '('
or ')' in their names. This is fixed.
A foomatic bug concerning file descriptor manipulations has been fixed.
4. Solution:
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Fvh [filenames]
where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.
Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info):
42663 - Printing on HP LJ 1100 broken
55909 - lpr ceases to print following foomatic, Omni upgrade
56855 - Bad: lpr can't connect to printer BJC-240
56871 - lack of working filter support for HP2200 at PCL level.
56984 - Missing Requires: line
57371 - PJL commands fail to prepend and append to ghostscript
6. RPMs required:
Red Hat Linux 7.2:
SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/SRPMS/foomatic-1.1-0.20011218.3.src.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/SRPMS/printconf-0.3.61-3.src.rpm
i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386/foomatic-1.1-0.20011218.3.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386/printconf-0.3.61-3.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386/printconf-gui-0.3.61-3.i386.rpm
ia64:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/ia64/foomatic-1.1-0.20011218.3.ia64.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/ia64/printconf-0.3.61-3.ia64.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/ia64/printconf-gui-0.3.61-3.ia64.rpm
7. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
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07b46d4526cf4f1960714cd07e5cf08c 7.2/en/os/SRPMS/foomatic-1.1-0.20011218.3.src.rpm
c5bb5dab822177c3cd8472de71bc6658 7.2/en/os/SRPMS/printconf-0.3.61-3.src.rpm
a02eeca04f0639ff295998dba02ce277 7.2/en/os/i386/foomatic-1.1-0.20011218.3.i386.rpm
f377092dd1ed32ccd8a574cbc2cf6172 7.2/en/os/i386/printconf-0.3.61-3.i386.rpm
a9d2647ffb3427963d94649729cd7200 7.2/en/os/i386/printconf-gui-0.3.61-3.i386.rpm
e13494e952b364dc42868f7d411ad37f 7.2/en/os/ia64/foomatic-1.1-0.20011218.3.ia64.rpm
64a67d261f6081e810ab04544492c033 7.2/en/os/ia64/printconf-0.3.61-3.ia64.rpm
88fb94b1806164749decbea67d8b219f 7.2/en/os/ia64/printconf-gui-0.3.61-3.ia64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key
is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/pgpkey.html
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm --checksig <filename>
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:
rpm --checksig --nogpg <filename>
8. References:
Copyright(c) 2000, 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
