su, 2006-12-03 kello 11:02 +0100, Ulrich Eckhardt kirjoitti: > Package: cupsys > Version:1.2.7-1 > > Hi! > > I just installed an USB printer (Samsung ML-1610) and stumbled across > the problem that after the wizard correctly detects the printer's > presence and type, it totally fails when printing. Worse, the > diagnostic is complete and utter nonsense, it says: > > "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..." > > By looking around a bit and trying this and that, I found out that > the problem is that the device node (/dev/usb/lp0) has owner root:lp. > A simple chmod lp:lp resolved the issue[1]. However, that's not the > issue here, the problem is rather that cupsys falsely diagnoses the > error, there is no connection missing but it's a simple permission > problem. > > cheers > > Uli > > [1] Note to anyone with the same initial problem: this is not a > fix, because if you unplug and replug the printer, it gets the > same permissions again. A proper fix is rather to configure > hotplug/udev/hal/whatever to create the node with proper > permissions and ownership
So... Why didn't you file this bug against hal/hotplug/udev, then? -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi