[Bug 60931] [NEW] Printing only works for PostScript files or CUPS' own test page

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System is Xubuntu 6.06.1 LTS.
Printer is a Brother HL-1650 (BRScript3, i.e. probably PostScript in all but name) over Samba (this does not seem to be an smbspool issue though).
CUPS can print its own test page.
lp SomePostScriptFile.ps works as well - but plaintext files (http://phpfi.com/153896 takes some script code as an example) and attempts to print from applications (e.g. acroread, GIMP) result in stopped jobs.

BTW while the user might be expected to find http://localhost:631 (after some googling), it's been tricky enough to have to figure out
sudo adduser cupsys shadow
/etc/init.d/cupsys restart
to even be allowed to add a printer. This should probably be considered automagically in future versions...

I assume something goes wrong in foomatic's attempt to convert into
PostScript and found the ways to make it write a debug log, but the
parameters it is called with are a mystery to me (and apparently to
itself either, judging from the output linked above) - so I can't tell
yet whether it fails because of wrong parameters, missing input or
insufficient rights to write its output.

** Affects: samba (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Confirmed

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Printing only works for PostScript files or CUPS' own test page
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/60931
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