Debian Bug report logs - #980020
chromium: "undefined command" when printing to postscript printer

Reply or subscribe to this bug.

Display info messages

Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Karl O. Pinc" <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: chromium: "undefined command" when printing to postscript printer

Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:59:32 -0600

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Package: chromium
Version: 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
Severity: normal

I find that trying to print to a postscript printer with chromium
prints instead:

ERROR NAME;
   undefined
COMMAND;
   Invalid
OPERAND STACK;

This did not always happen, but seems to be due to a security update.

I can print as a PDF to a file.  And, FWIW, I can print the pdf.
All of these methods work for printing the PDF:

  Sending the pdf directly to lpr.
  Using pdf2ps and sending the result to lpr.
  Using pdftops and sending the result to lpr.

Attached is a PNG of a U.S. Letter sized paper
with the text that appears when trying to print
from chromium.  I seems that no matter what I try
to print I get exactly the same output on the printer.

I seem to recall that this has happened before, and gone
away with some update or another.  But I recall no details.

This is the /etc/cups/printers.conf entry for the printer:
(domain name redacted)
The make/model of the printer are correct.

<DefaultPrinter Brother_MFC-7860DW>
UUID urn:uuid:7a0678ae-b2ee-3614-7280-5f1f217d3536
AuthInfoRequired none
Info Brother MFC-7860DW
Location Desk
MakeModel Brother MFC-7840N Foomatic/Postscript
DeviceURI http://brother-mfc-7860dw.REDACTED.com/postscript_p1
State Idle
StateTime 1610505099
ConfigTime 1577760817
Reason cups-ipp-conformance-failure-report
Reason cups-ipp-missing-job-history
Type 8433684
Accepting Yes
Shared No
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy retry-job
Attribute marker-colors \#000000,#000000
Attribute marker-levels -1,21
Attribute marker-names Black Toner Cartridge,Drum Unit
Attribute marker-types toner,opc
Attribute marker-change-time 1610505099
</DefaultPrinter>

I don't do a lot of printing but chromium seems to be the only program
with the problem.  I can print from libreoffice calc (debian version),
sending a text file to lpr, printing from firefox ESR (debian
version), and xsane.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-common      87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
ii  libasound2           1.1.8-1
ii  libatk-bridge2.0-0   2.30.0-5
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.30.0-2
ii  libatomic1           8.3.0-6
ii  libatspi2.0-0        2.30.0-7
ii  libavcodec58         7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libavformat58        7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libavutil56          7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
ii  libc6                2.28-10
ii  libcairo2            1.16.0-4
ii  libcups2             2.2.10-6+deb10u4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.12.20-0+deb10u1
ii  libdrm2              2.4.97-1
ii  libevent-2.1-6       2.1.8-stable-4
ii  libexpat1            2.2.6-2+deb10u1
ii  libflac8             1.3.2-3
ii  libfontconfig1       2.13.1-2
ii  libfreetype6         2.9.1-3+deb10u2
ii  libgbm1              18.3.6-2+deb10u1
ii  libgcc1              1:8.3.0-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.24.5-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b        2.3.1-1
ii  libicu63             63.1-6+deb10u1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.5.2-2+deb10u1
ii  libjsoncpp1          1.7.4-3
ii  liblcms2-2           2.9-3
ii  libminizip1          1.1-8+b1
ii  libnspr4             2:4.20-1
ii  libnss3              2:3.42.1-1+deb10u3
ii  libopenjp2-7         2.3.0-2+deb10u1
ii  libopus0             1.3-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.42.4-8~deb10u1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.42.4-8~deb10u1
ii  libpng16-16          1.6.36-6
ii  libpulse0            12.2-4+deb10u1
ii  libre2-5             20190101+dfsg-2
ii  libsnappy1v5         1.1.7-1
ii  libstdc++6           8.3.0-6
ii  libwebp6             0.6.1-2
ii  libwebpdemux2        0.6.1-2
ii  libwebpmux3          0.6.1-2
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1
ii  libx11-xcb1          2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1
ii  libxcb1              1.13.1-2
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-3+b3
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxml2              2.9.4+dfsg1-7+deb10u1
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.32-2.2~deb10u1
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages chromium recommends:
ii  chromium-sandbox  87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-driver  <none>
pn  chromium-l10n    <none>
pn  chromium-shell   <none>

Versions of packages chromium-common depends on:
ii  libc6       2.28-10
ii  libstdc++6  8.3.0-6
ii  libx11-6    2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1
ii  libxext6    2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  x11-utils   7.7+4
ii  xdg-utils   1.1.3-1+deb10u1
ii  zlib1g      1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages chromium-common recommends:
ii  chromium-sandbox                     87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
ii  fonts-liberation                     1:1.07.4-9
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                      18.3.6-2+deb10u1
ii  libu2f-udev                          1.1.9-1
ii  notification-daemon                  3.20.0-4
pn  system-config-printer                <none>
ii  upower                               0.99.10-1
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.4.3-1

Versions of packages chromium-sandbox depends on:
ii  libc6  2.28-10

-- no debconf information

[pserror.png (image/png, attachment)]

Message #12 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Gilbert <[email protected]>

To: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: re: chromium: "undefined command" when printing to postscript printer

Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 12:41:40 -0400

control: tag -1 moreinfo
control: severity -1 minor

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> Package: chromium
> Version: 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
> Severity: normal
>
> I find that trying to print to a postscript printer with chromium
> prints instead:
>
> ERROR NAME;
>    undefined
> COMMAND;
>    Invalid
> OPERAND STACK;
>
> This did not always happen, but seems to be due to a security  update.

Are the latest chromium stable updates affected by this?  The
87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1 security upload was built incorrectly.

Best wishes,
Mike

Message #24 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Karl O. Pinc" <[email protected]>

To: Michael Gilbert <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#980020: chromium: "undefined command" when printing to postscript printer

Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 13:56:58 -0500

On Sat, 8 May 2021 12:41:40 -0400
Michael Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > Package: chromium
> > Version: 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > I find that trying to print to a postscript printer with chromium
> > prints instead:
> >
> > ERROR NAME;
> >    undefined
> > COMMAND;
> >    Invalid
> > OPERAND STACK;
> >
> > This did not always happen, but seems to be due to a security
> > update.  
> 
> Are the latest chromium stable updates affected by this?  The
> 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1 security upload was built incorrectly.

I am now running chromium 90.0.4430.93-1~deb10u1.
AFIK the latest supplied for debian stable via
the stock debian repos.  The rest of the system
is updated as well.

The problem still happens.

Printing to a file in pdf format works fine.

Printing one page (google.com) generates 2 pages
of output, each with the above text in a grey box
about 7x15cm, at the bottom left of the page.  Text
is rather large, the last line is about 5cm-ish long.

I have a Brother MFC 7860DW printer.  The printer driver
I've used is for a 7840 (see original bug report), but 
has always worked and continues to work for other programs.

Regards,

Karl <[email protected]>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.