18.04 has no support for my printer

[Brian]

On Fri 19 Oct 2018 at 10:17:32 +0200, Charles Irons wrote:

> Hello Brian
> I hope Friday offers you a relaxing weekend.
> I ran the command from your email and the results are below.
> I have used synaptic a few times over the years.
> Maybe I could delete the printer and disconnect the cable, then uninstall
> HPLip and re-install version 3.18.9
> Then connect the printer and do HP-setup?
> That might produce a matched set of software??

You could do that but, to me, the problem appears to lie within another
part of the printing system such as CUPS or a filter from cups-filters.

> I suppose this long search may possibly be helpful to other users.
> I value your advice as always.
> **********************************
> Ran the command that you required.
> chas at Charles-PC:~$ sudo cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/test.ppd -m printer/foo -e
> /etc/nsswitch.conf > outfile 2>log
> [sudo] password for chas:
> Segmentation fault

All that cupsfilter does is run all the filters for the job without
sending it to the printer. I do not understand the crash. Mystifying.

> chas at Charles-PC:~$
> **********relevant syslog, auth.log and dkpg.log follow with a few
> "highlights" that I found.
> **************************************************************************************************

Nothing of use that I can spot in the logs.

[...]

A CUPS error log should help. Advice is at

https://wiki.debian.org/DissectingandDebuggingtheCUPSPrintingSystem

sudo with commands will be needed much of the time.

Good luck.

-- 
Brian.