fedora19 cups 1.6.4 released Oct 11 broke printer

Nate Pearlstein npearl at sgi.com
Tue Oct 22 20:15:09 UTC 2013


On 10/18/13 5:05 PM, Nate Pearlstein wrote:
> I print from Mac OS 10.8.x to a Fedora 19 print server using hplip and the latest cups upgrades broke printing.
>
> The output is severely stretched and large and some pictures are black.
>
> Reverting to cups 1.6.2 using:
>
> yum downgrade cups cups-filesystem cups-lpd cups-libs cups-ipptool cups-devel
>
> fixed the problem.  I would have gone back to the previous release cups 1.6.3 but yum downgrade seems to have picked the base fedora 19 cups not a previous update.
>
> I'm assuming the change here:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010580 caused it.  if I knew what info should be collected I'd file a bug.
>
>
> --
> Nate Pearlstein - npearl at sgi.com - Product Support Engineer
>
Some other loose print dependency must have been updated and not reached 
the update servers when I first tried as it is now working.


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