I have an HP PhotoSmart Pro B9100 connected to my Ubuntu Hardy box via USB and HPLIP 2.7.12 installed on an amd64 system.
I am using the PPD file for the HP PhotoSmart B8300 and no printing at all is possible.
foomatic-rip generates the following Ghostscript command line, which causes hpijs to segfault:
till@till-laptop:~/ubuntu/hplip/svn/pkg-hpijs/hplip/trunk$ cat /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps | gs -q -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=hpijs -sDeviceManufacturer="HEWLETT-PACKARD" -sDeviceModel="deskjet 5600" -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dDuplex=false -r600 -sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=0,Quality:ColorMode=2,Quality:MediaType=0,Quality:PenSet=2,PS:MediaPosition=7 -dIjsUseOutputFD -sOutputFile=- - > x*** glibc detected *** hpijs: double free or corruption (out): 0x000000000068d080 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x2b9fd147001a]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8c)[0x2b9fd1473bac]
hpijs[0x42ef9a]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x2b9fd141a1c4]
hpijs(__gxx_personality_v0+0xd1)[0x401f19]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-0044f000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2232466 /usr/bin/hpijs
0064f000-00672000 rw-p 0004f000 08:05 2232466 /usr/bin/hpijs
00672000-00694000 rw-p 00672000 00:00 0 [heap]
2b9fcf25e000-2b9fcf27b000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 344065 /lib/ld-2.7.so
2b9fcf27b000-2b9fcf27e000 rw-p 2b9fcf27b000 00:00 0
2b9fcf47b000-2b9fcf47d000 rw-p 0001d000 08:05 344065 /lib/ld-2.7.so
2b9fcf47d000-2b9fcf4a2000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2228657 /usr/lib/libhpip.so.0.0.1
2b9fcf4a2000-2b9fcf6a1000 ---p 00025000 08:05 2228657 /usr/lib/libhpip.so.0.0.1
2b9fcf6a1000-2b9fcf6a3000 rw-p 00024000 08:05 2228657 /usr/lib/libhpip.so.0.0.1
2b9fcf6a3000-2b9fcf6a4000 rw-p 2b9fcf6a3000 00:00 0
2b9fcf6a4000-2b9fcf6b9000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2232467 /usr/lib/libhpmud.so.0.0.1
2b9fcf6b9000-2b9fcf8b8000 ---p 00015000 08:05 2232467 /usr/lib/libhpmud.so.0.0.1
2b9fcf8b8000-2b9fcf8b9000 rw-p 00014000 08:05 2232467 /usr/lib/libhpmud.so.0.0.1
2b9fcf8b9000-2b9fcf986000 rw-p 2b9fcf8b9000 00:00 0
2b9fcf986000-2b9fcf98b000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2231148 /usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.18
2b9fcf98b000-2b9fcfb8b000 ---p 00005000 08:05 2231148 /usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.18
2b9fcfb8b000-2b9fcfb8c000 rw-p 00005000 08:05 2231148 /usr/lib/libsane.so.1.0.18
2b9fcfb8c000-2b9fcfb8d000 rw-p 2b9fcfb8c000 00:00 0
2b9fcfb8d000-2b9fcfb94000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 426064 /lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4
2b9fcfb94000-2b9fcfd93000 ---p 00007000 08:05 426064 /lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4
2b9fcfd93000-2b9fcfd95000 rw-p 00006000 08:05 426064 /lib/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4
2b9fcfd95000-2b9fcfdcb000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2229878 /usr/lib/libcups.so.2
2b9fcfdcb000-2b9fcffca000 ---p 00036000 08:05 2229878 /usr/lib/libcups.so.2
2b9fcffca000-2b9fcffcd000 rw-p 00035000 08:05 2229878 /usr/lib/libcups.so.2
2b9fcffcd000-2b9fd0063000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2229704 /usr/lib/libnetsnmp.so.15.1.0
2b9fd0063000-2b9fd0263000 ---p 00096000 08:05 2229704 /usr/lib/libnetsnmp.so.15.1.0
2b9fd0263000-2b9fd0267000 rw-p 00096000 08:05 2229704 /usr/lib/libnetsnmp.so.15.1.0
2b9fd0267000-2b9fd029c000 rw-p 2b9fd0267000 00:00 0
2b9fd029c000-2b9fd03f6000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2230067 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
2b9fd03f6000-2b9fd05f6000 ---p 0015a000 08:05 2230067 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
2b9fd05f6000-2b9fd0619000 rw-p 0015a000 08:05 2230067 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
2b9fd0619000-2b9fd061c000 rw-p 2b9fd0619000 00:00 0
2b9fd061c000-2b9fd061e000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 445191 /lib/libdl-2.7.so
2b9fd061e000-2b9fd081e000 ---p 00002000 08:05 445191 /lib/libdl-2.7.so
2b9fd081e000-2b9fd0820000 rw-p 00002000 08:05 445191 /lib/libdl-2.7.so
2b9fd0820000-2b9fd0842000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 2230028 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
2b9fd0842000-2b9fd0a42000 ---p 00022000 08:05 2230028 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
2b9fd0a42000-2b9fd0a43000 rw-p 00022000 08:05 2230028 /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
2b9fd0a43000-2b9fd0a44000 rw-p 2b9fd0a43000 00:00 0
2b9fd0a44000-2b9fd0a5a000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 445202 /lib/libpthread-2.7.so
2b9fd0a5a000-2b9fd0c5a000 ---p 00016000 08:05 445202 /lib/libpthread-2.7.so
2b9fd0c5a000-2b9fd0c5c000 rw-p 00016000 08:05 445202 Aborted (core dumped)
GPL Ghostscript 8.61: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
till@till-laptop:~/ubuntu/hplip/svn/pkg-hpijs/hplip/trunk$ hpijs -h
Hewlett-Packard Co. Inkjet Server 2.7.12
Copyright (c) 2001-2004, Hewlett-Packard Co.
till@till-laptop:~/ubuntu/hplip/svn/pkg-hpijs/hplip/trunk$
Additional remark: The problem occurs on both i386 and amd64 platforms.