Error message universal filter failed.
You has been here long enough to know a bit more is required for troubleshooting. How, since when, what have you done, what are you doing, inxi. Status from avahi, does cups run, etc. Etc.
Cups socket and service are both running as is user wireplumber
added rtkit and pipewire-libcamera to remove errors in wireplumber.
Nothing has changed in printing, the problem only started yesterday.
I have tried different drivers from epson-ecpr AUR to generic ipp everywhere, all give the same error. If I use the internet 631 I get a different error message
“cfFilterChain: pdftopdf (PID 58663) stopped with status 1”
Not sure how to check AVAHI ? its installed but that is as far as I got.
Check that the printer has not gotten a new network address
It will be easier to troubleshoot if you don’t mix connection methods.
Some basic network troubleshooting can be found in
[root tip] [How To] Basic network know-how and troubleshooting
avahi is multicast DNS resolver designed for connecting local networked devices e.g. printers.
As I recall it is installed as a dependency for NetworkManager and could be default enabled. That depends on the ISO and I recall you are building your own.
You can check
systemctl status avahi-daemon
Yes it is running I also found avahi-browse -a which does say it has the printer.
Check that the port assigned to the printer is valid.
Well if localhost:631 is not opening in the browser and instead gives an error, CUPS is broken 100%. No experience in this situation but i guess reinstall everything cups is the way to start.
Also arp-scan --localnet sees the printer
I never said it did not work in 631 it does but the error message is when I try to print a test page. This is my problem local or internet will not print test pages.
I might have misunderstood this then. Ok, if cups server opens i really have no ideas for now.
Your situation might be different, but I also have an Epson printer. Every now and then, the printer decides not to accept any print jobs.
I used to waste hours troubleshooting the issue. Now, I simply turn the printer off. When I turn it back on and it reconnects to the Wi-Fi, the print jobs from CUPS suddenly start coming through again.
Check /var/log/cups/error_log for more information about why filter failed
Just tried XFCE and guess what that prints so as a guess perhaps cups and cups filters is older?
If both systems are up to date they should have cups 2:2.4.19-1 and cups-filters 2.0.1-2
Branch compare for Manjaro - cups
I have sorted it one program was missing ghostscript and one program needed to be downgraded libcupsfilters from 2.2.1-2 to 2.1.1-4 now it prints.
there is a bug report abut this https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcupsfilters/issues/212
cups-filters has been updated and has fixed the problem with libcupsfilters
Spoke too soon this does not print pictures or from the internet. gone back to libcupsfilters 2.1.1-4