I did a search to see if others have had this problem, but didn't find
any. My apologies if I didn't use the right keywords. I've tried to use
the printing HOWTO, but seem to be going in circles when reading it.
I recently upgraded from potato to woody. I did not upgrade the kernel
(2.2.19). My desktop is KDE.
After upgrading, I could no longer get my printer to work. (It worked
under potato: I've a Brother HL-1240, and used the laserjet driver.) I
have since installed lprng and deleted lpr, and can now print an ascii
file from the command line (e.g., lpr testfile.txt). I
However, when I try to print from a KDE app or from WordPerfect or
from acrobat, I get the following type of message window popping up:
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/usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp|bhl1240|Brother HL-1240' '-#1'
/home/family/.kde/tmp-family/kdeprint_s5dkMry: execution failed with
message:
Status Information: sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to
lp"bhl1240|Brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
connected to 'localhost' requesting printer lp|bhl1240|Brother
[EMAIL PROTECTED] job 'family @localhost+433' transfer to
lp|bhl1240|Brother [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed error "NONZERO RFC1179
ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL' sending str
'^Blp|bhl1240|Brother-1240' to lp|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
error msg: 'bad command line'
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I'm at a loss. I'm pretty ignorant of printing arcana, but something
must need configuring that isn't.
Oh, I've tried it with the environmental variable $PRINTER set to "lp"
and to just nothing: same results. I've also tried...
# lpc enable all
...with no change.
When I run lpq, it tells me that the last job that [EMAIL PROTECTED] printed
was the lpr testfile.txt, and that Filter_status: lp is ready and
printing. (It's lying.) (What's this "@localhost bit?)
Running lsmod shows that lp is apparently loaded. I didn't see
anything that made sense to me in the /var/logs--but I may not know what
to look for!
If you can help, I'd appreciate it, either on-list or direct. My
wife and eldest daughter are both bugging me to get the ability to print
back!
Thanks!
James
James K. Gruetzner
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