CUPS returns "client-error-bad-request" when printing a file

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Issue

  • Printing works fine using CUPS in RHEL 6. but below messages keeps showing up in /var/log/cups/error_log:

    E [11/Feb/2016:14:08:34 -0500] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/prt123) from localhost
I [11/Feb/2016:14:08:34 -0500] [Job 65584] Canceled by "root".
E [11/Feb/2016:14:08:34 -0500] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/PRT234) from localhost
I [11/Feb/2016:14:08:34 -0500] [Job 65585] Canceled by "root".

  • In RHEL 7, some jobs are not printing and we see the following messages in the error_log:

    E [02/Feb/2019:12:23:52 -0500] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/prab2) from localhost
E [02/Feb/2019:12:37:34 -0500] Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/ltrpt08) from localhost

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6, 7, & 8
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) 1.4.2, 1.6.3, & 2.2.6

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