Re: cups problem, no response from cups

[Brian]

On Wed 02 Mar 2022 at 14:07:35 -0500, gene heskett wrote:

[Snip]

> drwxr-xr-x   5 root lp4096 Mar  2 13:29 .
> drwxr-xr-x 126 root root 12288 Mar  2 05:41 ..
> -rw---   1 root lp 111 Feb 23 16:52 classes.conf
> -rw-r-   1 root lp 111 Feb 23 16:50 classes.conf.O
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 30432 Feb 23 17:08 cups-browsed.conf
> -rw-r-   1 root lp4680 Mar  2 07:27 cupsd.conf
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  6456 Feb 19 12:43 cupsd.conf.O
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3047 May 27  2021 cups-files.conf
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 27  2021 interfaces
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root lp4096 Mar  2 07:34 ppd
> -rw---   1 root lp2327 Mar  2 07:35 printers.conf
> -rw---   1 root lp2327 Mar  2 07:34 printers.conf.O
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   240 Feb 19 12:43 raw.convs
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   211 Feb 19 12:43 raw.types
> -rw-r--r--   1 root root   142 May 27  2021 snmp.conf
> drwx--   2 root lp4096 May 27  2021 ssl
> -rw-r-   1 root lp1093 Mar  2 13:29 subscriptions.conf
> -rw-r-   1 root lp1093 Mar  2 12:30 subscriptions.conf.O

All tip-top.

[Snip] 

> Thank you. And I have not found how to turn off line wrap in kmail in 
> kde5. It was in the composer tool bar in the old tde version.

Don't worry too much. It is not a CUPS issue.

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Re: cups problem, no response from cups

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, 2 March 2022 11:06:09 EST Dan Ritter wrote:
> gene heskett wrote:
> > 1. The default non-driver for my Brother MFC-J6920DW goes thru the
> > motions of being deleted after sudo'ing, but the deletion is then
> > causing a cups restart, and that apparently restores this
> > non-functional configuration, making 3 configs.  And the no-driver
> > version cannot be deleted.
> > 
> > I have 2 other brother driver profiles using brothers driver that do
> > work, but in addition to that one I also have a b&w laser, which also
> > shows up twice in the printers list, but:
> > 
> > 2. none of these profiles remember the choices made for how its
> > supposed to handle the instant job, you have to go through the whole
> > menu of options for every job you send to hard copy.
> > 
> > Telling it to do all jobs sent to that profile in duplex, landscape,
> > and long edge binding in the profile doesn't work, but has to be
> > done in the printer requester (kde5?), per job.  All this worked
> > perfectly in stretch, using TDE, not KDE and I'd save a whole forest
> > if I could restore that function in bullseye.
> 
> This set of symptoms suggests to me that cups has an ownership
> or permissions problem in the directory that it is trying to
> save settings.
> 
> Can you show us
> 
> ls -al /etc/cups
> 
> and
> 
> ps auwx|grep cups
> 
> please?
> 
> .
root@coyote:~# ls -al /etc/cups
total 116
drwxr-xr-x   5 root lp4096 Mar  2 13:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 126 root root 12288 Mar  2 05:41 ..
-rw---   1 root lp 111 Feb 23 16:52 classes.conf
-rw-r-   1 root lp 111 Feb 23 16:50 classes.conf.O
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 30432 Feb 23 17:08 cups-browsed.conf
-rw-r-   1 root lp4680 Mar  2 07:27 cupsd.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  6456 Feb 19 12:43 cupsd.conf.O
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3047 May 27  2021 cups-files.conf
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 27  2021 interfaces
drwxr-xr-x   2 root lp4096 Mar  2 07:34 ppd
-rw---   1 root lp2327 Mar  2 07:35 printers.conf
-rw---   1 root lp2327 Mar  2 07:34 printers.conf.O
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   240 Feb 19 12:43 raw.convs
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   211 Feb 19 12:43 raw.types
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   142 May 27  2021 snmp.conf
drwx--   2 root lp4096 May 27  2021 ssl
-rw-r-   1 root lp1093 Mar  2 13:29 subscriptions.conf
-rw-r-   1 root lp1093 Mar  2 12:30 subscriptions.conf.O
root@coyote:~# ps auwx|grep cups
root9129  0.0  0.0 101652 12368 ?Ssl  07:30   0:00 /usr/
sbin/cupsd -l
lp  9132  0.0  0.0  16320  6704 ?S07:30   0:00 /usr/
lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://
lp  9133  0.0  0.0  16320  6584 ?S07:30   0:00 /usr/
lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://
root9134  0.0  0.0 175840 12608 ?Ssl  07:30   0:00 /usr/
sbin/cups-browsed
lp  9143  0.0  0.0  16320  6648 ?S07:30   0:00 /usr/
lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://
root   22596  0.0  0.0   6180   716 pts/3S+   13:58   0:00 grep 
cups

Thank you. And I have not found how to turn off line wrap in kmail in 
kde5. It was in the composer tool bar in the old tde version.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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Re: cups problem, no response from cups

[Dan Ritter]

gene heskett wrote: 
> 1. The default non-driver for my Brother MFC-J6920DW goes thru the 
> motions of being deleted after sudo'ing, but the deletion is then causing 
> a cups restart, and that apparently restores this non-functional 
> configuration, making 3 configs.  And the no-driver version cannot be 
> deleted.
> 
> I have 2 other brother driver profiles using brothers driver that do 
> work, but in addition to that one I also have a b&w laser, which also 
> shows up twice in the printers list, but:
> 
> 2. none of these profiles remember the choices made for how its supposed 
> to handle the instant job, you have to go through the whole menu of 
> options for every job you send to hard copy.
> 
> Telling it to do all jobs sent to that profile in duplex, landscape, and 
> long edge binding in the profile doesn't work, but has to be done in the 
> printer requester (kde5?), per job.  All this worked perfectly in 
> stretch, using TDE, not KDE and I'd save a whole forest if I could 
> restore that function in bullseye.

This set of symptoms suggests to me that cups has an ownership
or permissions problem in the directory that it is trying to
save settings.

Can you show us

ls -al /etc/cups

and

ps auwx|grep cups

please?

cups problem, no response from cups

[gene heskett]

Greetings all;

I finally managed to get it to reboot w/o hanging at 10 the second mark 
forever. Somebody finally told me how to disable the objectionable stuff 
using systemctl in systemd/system. So now a reboot is not another re-
install.

Now I'm trying and failing to get my printers to behave, two problems, 
might be related.

1. The default non-driver for my Brother MFC-J6920DW goes thru the 
motions of being deleted after sudo'ing, but the deletion is then causing 
a cups restart, and that apparently restores this non-functional 
configuration, making 3 configs.  And the no-driver version cannot be 
deleted.

I have 2 other brother driver profiles using brothers driver that do 
work, but in addition to that one I also have a b&w laser, which also 
shows up twice in the printers list, but:

2. none of these profiles remember the choices made for how its supposed 
to handle the instant job, you have to go through the whole menu of 
options for every job you send to hard copy.

Telling it to do all jobs sent to that profile in duplex, landscape, and 
long edge binding in the profile doesn't work, but has to be done in the 
printer requester (kde5?), per job.  All this worked perfectly in 
stretch, using TDE, not KDE and I'd save a whole forest if I could 
restore that function in bullseye.

Any help/hope?

Thanks. Take care & stay well all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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Re: CUPS problem on Jessie was Re: (no subject)

[Cindy-Sue Causey]

On 10/25/16, Norbert Kiszka  wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 25 October 2016 08:06:02 Alan Hutchinson wrote:
>> > Hi people just a small note to tell you that, I am having a problem in
>> > Debian 8 Jessie ,I have bean trying to run cups.service and it just
>> > wont
>> > run, when using system d, and I type systemctl start cups.service, I
>> > get
>> > the error
>> >
>> > Process:400 Execstart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -f (code=killed,signal=term)
>> >
>> > Main Pid:400 (code=killed,signal=term man 7 signal
>> >
>> > what do I have to read up on to get my cups.service up and running
>> > againe
>>
>
> Any logs in /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/messages after 'systemctl start
> cups.service'?


I wasn't paying full attention, basically blanked out as soon as I saw
"CUPS" (that I don't use), but your thought here triggered memory of
something I just learned while (still) battling wifi setup:

systemctl status cups.service

At least in my case, that also provides some instant feedback in
addition to the already mentioned logs.

Hope that helps someone somewhere some day. :)

Cindy :)

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Re: CUPS problem on Jessie was Re: (no subject)

[Norbert Kiszka]

Dnia 2016-10-25, wto o godzinie 12:37 +0100, Lisi Reisz pisze:
> Replying  to give this a subject.
> Lisi
> 
> On Tuesday 25 October 2016 08:06:02 Alan Hutchinson wrote:
> > --
> > Alan Hutchinson
> > Hi people just a small note to tell you that, I am having a problem in
> > Debian 8 Jessie ,I have bean trying to run cups.service and it just wont
> > run, when using system d, and I type systemctl start cups.service, I get
> > the error
> >
> > Process:400 Execstart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -f (code=killed,signal=term)
> >
> > Main Pid:400 (code=killed,signal=term man 7 signal
> >
> > what do I have to read up on to get my cups.service up and running againe
> 

Any logs in /var/log/dmesg or /var/log/messages after 'systemctl start 
cups.service'?

CUPS problem on Jessie was Re: (no subject)

[Lisi Reisz]

Replying  to give this a subject.
Lisi

On Tuesday 25 October 2016 08:06:02 Alan Hutchinson wrote:
> --
> Alan Hutchinson
> Hi people just a small note to tell you that, I am having a problem in
> Debian 8 Jessie ,I have bean trying to run cups.service and it just wont
> run, when using system d, and I type systemctl start cups.service, I get
> the error
>
> Process:400 Execstart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -f (code=killed,signal=term)
>
> Main Pid:400 (code=killed,signal=term man 7 signal
>
> what do I have to read up on to get my cups.service up and running againe

Re: Cups Problem: cups-ipp-missing-send-document

[Brian]

On Thu 21 May 2015 at 23:37:43 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 16:35 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > Cups found the printer with an ethernet attachment to our LAN.
> > lp test.txt apparently works but nothing printed.
> > job status is rendering complete
> > Gnome tools-printer shows a printer error and the message
> > cups-ipp-send-document-missing
> > 
> > service cups restart does not solve problem
> > 
> > dpkg-reconfigure cups does not solve problem
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Looks like either a conformance issue with the printer, and/or a bug in
> CUPS:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/973270
> 
> It's an old bug report but the bug seems to have returned?
> 
> You can also enable more verbose logging in CUPS.

Bugs in the way printer manufacturers implement IPP never go away. It
would be useful for the OP to let us know whether changing the backend
results in a solution.


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Re: Cups Problem: cups-ipp-missing-send-document

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 16:35 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> Cups found the printer with an ethernet attachment to our LAN.
> lp test.txt apparently works but nothing printed.
> job status is rendering complete
> Gnome tools-printer shows a printer error and the message
> cups-ipp-send-document-missing
> 
> service cups restart does not solve problem
> 
> dpkg-reconfigure cups does not solve problem
> 
> Any suggestions?

Looks like either a conformance issue with the printer, and/or a bug in
CUPS:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/973270

It's an old bug report but the bug seems to have returned?

You can also enable more verbose logging in CUPS.

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Cups Problem: cups-ipp-missing-send-document

[Thomas H. George]

Cups found the printer with an ethernet attachment to our LAN.
lp test.txt apparently works but nothing printed.
job status is rendering complete
Gnome tools-printer shows a printer error and the message
cups-ipp-send-document-missing

service cups restart does not solve problem

dpkg-reconfigure cups does not solve problem

Any suggestions?

Tom


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Re: cups problem

[François Patte]

Le 07/05/2014 16:51, Brian a écrit :
> On Wed 07 May 2014 at 16:06:42 +0200, François Patte wrote:
> 
>> Le 07/05/2014 14:50, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
>>>
>>> If I would experience the same issue as you do, while using sid, I would
>>> install stable beside sid to test, how it works for stable. Assumed it
>>> should work for stable, but not for sid, I would compare the
>>> differences. Fortunately I run a mix of stable, testing and unstable, so
>>> if an issue happens, I test different mixtures for the packages that
>>> most likely cause the issue ;D.
>>
>> No! on sid, you have the "legacy" backend ipp14 which is unavailable on
>> wheezy. So on wheezy problem is worst: I can't print at all!
> 
> brian@desktop:~$ locate ipp14
> /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp14
> /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/ipp14
> 
> Why do you need ipp4 with your printer?

Because it is the only protocol which is able to make my printer working.

Anyway thanks for this: /usr/lib/cups/backend-available/ipp14

It seems that cups is not able to find this directory:
"backend-available" and I had to make a symlink in /usr/lib/cups/backend
directory to see ipp14 in cups config page!

Thanks

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Re: cups problem

[Brian]

On Wed 07 May 2014 at 16:06:42 +0200, François Patte wrote:

> Le 07/05/2014 14:50, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
> > 
> > If I would experience the same issue as you do, while using sid, I would
> > install stable beside sid to test, how it works for stable. Assumed it
> > should work for stable, but not for sid, I would compare the
> > differences. Fortunately I run a mix of stable, testing and unstable, so
> > if an issue happens, I test different mixtures for the packages that
> > most likely cause the issue ;D.
> 
> No! on sid, you have the "legacy" backend ipp14 which is unavailable on
> wheezy. So on wheezy problem is worst: I can't print at all!

brian@desktop:~$ locate ipp14
/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp14
/usr/lib/cups/backend-available/ipp14

Why do you need ipp4 with your printer?


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Re: cups problem

[François Patte]

Le 07/05/2014 14:50, Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
> On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 14:41 +0200, François Patte wrote:
>> Bonjour,
>>
>>
>> Since upgrade, cups if awfull!
>>
>> 1- I can have my printed (badly) working only using ipp14 protocol...
>>
>> 2- The printing is corrupted: only twice vertical half page!
>>
>>
>> Does someone encounter the same problem and how to correct this?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> PS. Debian sid, cups  1.7.1-1
> 
> If I would experience the same issue as you do, while using sid, I would
> install stable beside sid to test, how it works for stable. Assumed it
> should work for stable, but not for sid, I would compare the
> differences. Fortunately I run a mix of stable, testing and unstable, so
> if an issue happens, I test different mixtures for the packages that
> most likely cause the issue ;D.

No! on sid, you have the "legacy" backend ipp14 which is unavailable on
wheezy. So on wheezy problem is worst: I can't print at all!


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Re: cups problem

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 14:41 +0200, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> 
> Since upgrade, cups if awfull!
> 
> 1- I can have my printed (badly) working only using ipp14 protocol...
> 
> 2- The printing is corrupted: only twice vertical half page!
> 
> 
> Does someone encounter the same problem and how to correct this?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> PS. Debian sid, cups  1.7.1-1

If I would experience the same issue as you do, while using sid, I would
install stable beside sid to test, how it works for stable. Assumed it
should work for stable, but not for sid, I would compare the
differences. Fortunately I run a mix of stable, testing and unstable, so
if an issue happens, I test different mixtures for the packages that
most likely cause the issue ;D.



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cups problem

[François Patte]

Bonjour,


Since upgrade, cups if awfull!

1- I can have my printed (badly) working only using ipp14 protocol...

2- The printing is corrupted: only twice vertical half page!


Does someone encounter the same problem and how to correct this?

Thank you.

PS. Debian sid, cups  1.7.1-1


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[SOLVED] Re: CUPS Problem: "Unable to start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."

[AG]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:58:53 +0100, AG wrote:

[...]

  

Well - I'll be a monkey's uncle:  I rebooted today and miraculously
the printer is now working.  I thought this only happened in
Windows-World not under GNU/Linux where a reboot fixes a problem.  I
can imagine - I'd spend months hunting down a phantom problem when
all it takes is a reboot.



All you should have to do is restart processes that hang on to old
versions of libraries, configuration files, etc. (I seem to remember
that that was pointed out in the recent uptime thread.)

  
Yes, I recall.  Sometimes for a relative newbie such as myself, it is a 
real devil of a job trying to track down exactly what the offending 
process might be.

So much for my thread on uptimes ... it actually seems that for a
relative Deb-noob like me, sometimes a reboot will clear out the
bugs and get one's system working again.



Run checkrestart (package "debian-goodies") after every upgrade or
installation procedure; it will tell you which services have to be
restarted. (For the present problem it may have been cups itself.)

  
That's a good tip - thanks.  I could've sworn that I restarted the print 
server (i.e. /etc/init.d/cups restart), but evidently not.  After 
searching on the web and finding the URL I referenced, I was convinced 
that I had uncovered a bug.


Anyway thanks (again) Florian.  I will bear that tip in mind for any 
future upgrade/ installation.


All the best

AG


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Re: CUPS Problem: "Unable to start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 08:58:53 +0100, AG wrote:

[...]

> Well - I'll be a monkey's uncle:  I rebooted today and miraculously
> the printer is now working.  I thought this only happened in
> Windows-World not under GNU/Linux where a reboot fixes a problem.  I
> can imagine - I'd spend months hunting down a phantom problem when
> all it takes is a reboot.

All you should have to do is restart processes that hang on to old
versions of libraries, configuration files, etc. (I seem to remember
that that was pointed out in the recent uptime thread.)

> So much for my thread on uptimes ... it actually seems that for a
> relative Deb-noob like me, sometimes a reboot will clear out the
> bugs and get one's system working again.

Run checkrestart (package "debian-goodies") after every upgrade or
installation procedure; it will tell you which services have to be
restarted. (For the present problem it may have been cups itself.)

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Re: CUPS Problem: "Unable to start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."

[AG]

AG wrote:

Hi list

Can someone point me in the right direction of a fix/workaround for 
this apparent bug please.
Nothing prints at present and the webadmin page displays: "Unable to 
start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."


The only result using Google I can find is: 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/584860 
which doesn't bode well as I too am running an AMD64 using Squeeze.


Restarting the printer and attempting a test page fails quietly.
Thanks for any assist.

AG



Well - I'll be a monkey's uncle:  I rebooted today and miraculously the 
printer is now working.  I thought this only happened in Windows-World 
not under GNU/Linux where a reboot fixes a problem.  I can imagine - I'd 
spend months hunting down a phantom problem when all it takes is a reboot.


So much for my thread on uptimes ... it actually seems that for a 
relative Deb-noob like me, sometimes a reboot will clear out the bugs 
and get one's system working again.


So - apparently it wasn't a bug ... go figure!

AG


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Re: CUPS Problem: "Unable to start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:03:18PM +0100, AG wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 18:04:47 +0100, AG wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi list
>>>
>>> Can someone point me in the right direction of a fix/workaround for
>>> this apparent bug please.
>>>
>>> Nothing prints at present and the webadmin page displays: "Unable to
>>> start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."
>>>
>>> The only result using Google I can find is:
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/584860
>>> which doesn't bode well as I too am running an AMD64 using Squeeze.
>>>
>>> Restarting the printer and attempting a test page fails quietly.
>>> 
>>
>> The relevant file, /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster, is part of
>> ghostscript-cups. Is this package installed on your system?
>>
>>   
> Florian
>
> Apparently not:
>
> $ whereis pdftoraster
> pdftoraster:
>
> And nothing with a manual ls, either.
>
> There is no installation candidate for pdftoraster AFAICT from apt-cache  
> search

the file pdftoraster is contained in the ghostscript-cups package. You
should install that package, though from my reading of the bug, that
won't necessarily completely solve the problem. 

>
> Isn't that the bug though - a call for a file that doesn't exist or am I  
> misreading that bug description?

yes and no. from the official bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534799

the file pdftoraster has moved to the ghostscript-cups package, but
cups doesn't pull in that package. There are probably further problems
with printing, but at a minimum, you need that package.

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Re: CUPS Problem: "Unable to start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."

[AG]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 18:04:47 +0100, AG wrote:
  

Hi list

Can someone point me in the right direction of a fix/workaround for
this apparent bug please.

Nothing prints at present and the webadmin page displays: "Unable to
start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."

The only result using Google I can find is:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/584860
which doesn't bode well as I too am running an AMD64 using Squeeze.

Restarting the printer and attempting a test page fails quietly.



The relevant file, /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster, is part of
ghostscript-cups. Is this package installed on your system?

  

Florian

Apparently not:

$ whereis pdftoraster
pdftoraster:

And nothing with a manual ls, either.

There is no installation candidate for pdftoraster AFAICT from apt-cache 
search


Isn't that the bug though - a call for a file that doesn't exist or am I 
misreading that bug description?


Cheers

AG


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Re: CUPS Problem: "Unable to start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 18:04:47 +0100, AG wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction of a fix/workaround for
> this apparent bug please.
> 
> Nothing prints at present and the webadmin page displays: "Unable to
> start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."
> 
> The only result using Google I can find is:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/584860
> which doesn't bode well as I too am running an AMD64 using Squeeze.
> 
> Restarting the printer and attempting a test page fails quietly.

The relevant file, /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster, is part of
ghostscript-cups. Is this package installed on your system?

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CUPS Problem: "Unable to start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."

[AG]

Hi list

Can someone point me in the right direction of a fix/workaround for this 
apparent bug please. 

Nothing prints at present and the webadmin page displays: "Unable to 
start filter "pdftoraster" - Success."


The only result using Google I can find is: 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/584860 
which doesn't bode well as I too am running an AMD64 using Squeeze.


Restarting the printer and attempting a test page fails quietly. 


Thanks for any assist.

AG



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Re: CUPS problem

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On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 06:54:27PM +0300, Alexander Petrov wrote:
> 
> I started hplip (version 2.4.1 and it made some installations (gcc, g++, 
> python-dev, libcupsys2-dev, libjpeg-dev, libusb-dev, libsnmp-dev ) and then 
> hung. The staus of the process was 'sleeping' 
> What should I do next?
> regards

you could strace it to find out what it is doing. I have found I have to
sudo run it to make it work sometimes

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I checked the /var/log/cups/errolog and there was a reference to foomatic 
driver :
 PID 11356 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
The same message can be seen through the web tool (localhost:631)
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I started hplip (version 2.4.1 and it made some installations (gcc, g++, 
python-dev, libcupsys2-dev, libjpeg-dev, libusb-dev, libsnmp-dev ) and then 
hung. The staus of the process was 'sleeping' 
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Re: CUPS problem

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On Friday 15 August 2008 05:16, Alexander Petrov wrote:
> Hi everyone,I have Debian Etch 2.6.18-i686  on AMDSempron 3000+. I want to
> install my HP DeskJet 920C on it. I downloaded the recomended driver
> HP_deskjet_920C_hpijs.ppd from linuxprinting.org and installed it through
> CUPS installation. The printer appeared it the Gnome panel. When I tried to
> print nothing happened. The print jobs were in 'stopped' state. Any help
> would be appreciated.

  Check the logs, cups is reasonably good about being informative
there.  You can check them from the browser-client thing, 
in which case you want "error logs", or just look in /var/log
for something plausible.

  Sometimes ppd files depend on other things being installed --
I recently ran into this with a third-party ppd file for a Dell
printer that needed the "foomatic" driver package in order to 
work.

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Re: CUPS problem

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:16:24PM +0300, Alexander Petrov wrote:
> Hi everyone,I have Debian Etch 2.6.18-i686  on AMDSempron 3000+. I want to 
> install my HP DeskJet 920C on it. I downloaded the recomended driver 
> HP_deskjet_920C_hpijs.ppd from linuxprinting.org and installed it through 
> CUPS installation. The printer appeared it the Gnome panel. When I tried to 
> print nothing happened. The print jobs were in 'stopped' state. Any help 
> would be appreciated.


Check out package hplip, I use this to add my hp printers to cups

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Hi everyone,I have Debian Etch 2.6.18-i686  on AMDSempron 3000+. I want to 
install my HP DeskJet 920C on it. I downloaded the recomended driver 
HP_deskjet_920C_hpijs.ppd from linuxprinting.org and installed it through CUPS 
installation. The printer appeared it the Gnome panel. When I tried to print 
nothing happened. The print jobs were in 'stopped' state. Any help would be 
appreciated.
 
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Re: cups problem

[David Baron]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 13:53, Roger Leigh wrote:
> David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Newer CUPS apparently defaults printers to "stopped". IF this be
> > your problem, go to http://localhost:631 and "start" the printer.
>
> No, it stops the printer on failure to communicate with it (a backend
> error).  This is configurable; choose retry-job as the error policy
> (under "set printer options").

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David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Newer CUPS apparently defaults printers to "stopped". IF this be
> your problem, go to http://localhost:631 and "start" the printer.

No, it stops the printer on failure to communicate with it (a backend
error).  This is configurable; choose retry-job as the error policy
(under "set printer options").


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Re: cups problem

[Paras pradhan]

Hi all:

I have just downgraded the cupsys files using this repository and
cupsys is working fine now.

http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2005/04/20/debian/pool/main/c/cupsys/


It seems there is something wrong with the current etch cupsys package.

Thanks.
Paras.

On 7/24/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Monday 24 July 2006 14:41, Paras pradhan wrote:
> Just removed , purged and re installed cupsys. same problem.
>
>
>
> Paras.
>
> On 7/23/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Several people (including me) have had to purge ("apt-get --purge remove
> > cupsys") and reinstall CUPS to make it work.
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> > Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com.  Reviews!  Observations!
> > Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Newer CUPS apparently defaults printers to "stopped". IF this be your problem,
go to http://localhost:631 and "start" the printer.


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On Monday 24 July 2006 14:41, Paras pradhan wrote:
> Just removed , purged and re installed cupsys. same problem.
>
>
>
> Paras.
>
> On 7/23/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Several people (including me) have had to purge ("apt-get --purge remove
> > cupsys") and reinstall CUPS to make it work.
> > --
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> >
> > Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com.  Reviews!  Observations!
> > Stupid mistakes you can correct!

Newer CUPS apparently defaults printers to "stopped". IF this be your problem, 
go to http://localhost:631 and "start" the printer.


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Just removed , purged and re installed cupsys. same problem.



Paras.

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Several people (including me) have had to purge ("apt-get --purge remove
cupsys") and reinstall CUPS to make it work.
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Re: cups problem

[Paras pradhan]

Hi:

Nothing in the error log.

Ex:

I [23/Jul/2006:21:44:21 +0545] Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups':
34 types, 39 filters...
I [23/Jul/2006:21:44:21 +0545] Loading job cache file
"/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [23/Jul/2006:21:44:21 +0545] Full reload complete.
I [23/Jul/2006:21:44:21 +0545] Listening to :::631 on fd 3...
I [23/Jul/2006:21:44:21 +0545] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 on fd 4...
I [24/Jul/2006:00:19:33 +0545] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [24/Jul/2006:00:19:33 +0545] Saving remote.cache...
I [24/Jul/2006:00:19:33 +0545] Saving job cache file
"/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
-



This is my top output:

 PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
4121 root  37   0  4960 2200 1496 R 50.2  0.9   1:43.53 cupsd
4140 lp39   0 71576  67m  712 R 48.6 29.1   1:45.29 cups-driverd

Where 50.2 CPU is used by cupsd.

Thanks
Paras.

On 7/21/06, Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Presenlty I am using etch  and cups is not working. When i try to add
> printer from localhost:631, after adding device URl nothing works
> (shows processing). same with gnome-cups-manager. at the same time if
> i see resources using top command cups-driver and cups uses almost 90%
> of CPU and memory.
what says the cups's log?

add the ip's clients in /etc/cups/client.conf and cupsd.conf

e then restart it /etc/init/cupsys restart ;-)

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> Presenlty I am using etch  and cups is not working. When i try to add
> printer from localhost:631, after adding device URl nothing works
> (shows processing). same with gnome-cups-manager. at the same time if
> i see resources using top command cups-driver and cups uses almost 90%
> of CPU and memory.
what says the cups's log?

add the ip's clients in /etc/cups/client.conf and cupsd.conf

e then restart it /etc/init/cupsys restart ;-)

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cups problem

[Paras pradhan]

Hi:

Presenlty I am using etch  and cups is not working. When i try to add
printer from localhost:631, after adding device URl nothing works
(shows processing). same with gnome-cups-manager. at the same time if
i see resources using top command cups-driver and cups uses almost 90%
of CPU and memory.

These are my packages list:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:etc# dpkg -l |grep cupsys
ii  cupsys1.2.1-3
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii  cupsys-bsd1.2.1-3
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
ii  cupsys-client 1.2.1-3
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro
ii  cupsys-driver-gimpprint   4.3.99+cvs20060521-4
printer drivers for CUPS
ii  cupsys-driver-gutenprint  4.3.99+cvs20060521-4
printer drivers for CUPS
ii  libcupsys21.2.1-3
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
ii  libcupsys2-gnutls10   1.2.1-3
Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - dummy libs



Please let me know how to solve this issue.


Thanks in Advance
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CUPS problem printing is slow

[Hans Poppe]

Hi all,
I've encountered a strange problem with CUPS that I've not been able
to solve neither by myself, nor by googling or searching newsgroups.
I've a network of approximately 70 workstations running Windows XP,
but printing is done on a Debian Sarge printserver running CUPS. The
printserver is set up as an anonymous printserver (user nobody prints
all jobs) and everything is working very well, printing is fast and
reliable, but there is one exception. When we try to print from Adobe
Photoshop (using native .psd format or printing large files in Adobes
PDF format, it takes a very long time. A .psd picture of about 5 MB
will take 15 - 20 minutes. Converting this to .jpg speeds it up, but
it is still about 5 - 7 minutes before printing starts. Printing from
any other program or any other type of file (also .bmp) works very
well and printing takes maybe 30 seconds.
Anyone with an idea as to what could be wrong? error log and access
logs do not give any information.
Cupsd.conf is attached if it's of any help.
All suggestions are very, very welcome :-D
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# This tool is part of KDEPrint, the printing framework for KDE
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# in KDEPrint. The predecessors to KDEPrint in former KDE releases
# were KUPS and QtCUPS; they are deprecated and no longer maintained.
#
# Author: Michael Goffioul 
#
# Web site: http://printing.kde.org/
#

#  #
# This is the CUPS configuration file.  If you are familiar with   #
# Apache or any of the other popular web servers, we've followed the   #
# same format.  Any configuration variable used here has the same  #
# semantics as the corresponding variable in Apache.  If we need   #
# different functionality then a different name is used to avoid   #
# confusion... #
#  #

#

# Server

# Server name (ServerName)
# 
# The hostname of your server, as advertised to the world.
# By default CUPS will use the hostname of the system.
# 
# To set the default server used by clients, see the client.conf file.
# 
# ex: myhost.domain.com
#
#ServerName myhost.domain.com


# Server administrator (ServerAdmin)
# 
# The email address to send all complaints or problems to.
# By default CUPS will use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
# 
# ex: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
#ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]


# Classification (Classification)
# 
# The classification level of the server.  If set, this
# classification is displayed on all pages, and raw printing is disabled.
# The default is the empty string.
# 
# ex: confidential
#
#Classification classified

Classification none

# Allow overrides (ClassifyOverride)
# 
# Whether to allow users to override the classification
# on printouts. If enabled, users can limit banner pages to before or
# after the job, and can change the classification of a job, but cannot
# completely eliminate the classification or banners.
# 
# The default is off.
#
#ClassifyOverride off


# Default character set (DefaultCharset)
# 
# The default character set to use. If not specified,
# defaults to utf-8.  Note that this can also be overridden in
# HTML documents...
# 
# ex: utf-8
#
#DefaultCharset utf-8

DefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

# Default language (DefaultLanguage)
# 
# The default language if not specified by the browser.
# If not specified, the current locale is used.
# 
# ex: en
#
#DefaultLanguage en

DefaultLanguage no

# Printcap file (Printcap)
# 
# The name of the printcap file.  Default is no filename.
# Leave blank to disable printcap file generation.
# 
# ex: /etc/printcap
#
#Printcap /etc/printcap

Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap


PrintcapFormat BSD

# Security

# Remote root user (RemoteRoot)
# 
# The name of the user assigned to unauthenticated accesses
# from remote systems.  By default "remroot".
# 
# ex: remroot
#
#RemoteRoot remroot

RemoteRoot remroot

# System group (SystemGroup)
# 
# The group name for "System" (printer administration)
# access.  The default varies depending on the operating system, but
# will be sys, system, or root (checked for in that order).
# 
# ex: lpadmin
#
#SystemGroup lpadmin

SystemGroup lpadmin

# Encryption certificate (ServerCertificate)
# 
# The file to read containing the server's certificate.
# Defaults to "/etc/cups/ssl/server.crt".
# 
# ex: /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt
#
#ServerCertificate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt

ServerCertificate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt

# Encryption key (ServerKey)
# 
# The file to read containing the server's key.
# Defaults to "/etc/cups/ssl/server.key".
# 
# ex

CUPS problem printing pictures is very slow

[Hans Poppe]

Hi all,
I've encountered a strange problem with CUPS that I've not been able
to solve neither by myself, nor by googling or searching newsgroups.
I've a network of approximately 70 workstations running Windows XP,
but printing is done on a Debian Sarge printserver running CUPS. The
printserver is set up as an anonymous printserver (user nobody prints
all jobs) and everything is working very well, printing is fast and
reliable, but there is one exception. When we try to print from Adobe
Photoshop (using native .psd format or printing large files in Adobes
PDF format, it takes a very long time. A .psd picture of about 5 MB
will take 15 - 20 minutes. Converting this to .jpg speeds it up, but
it is still about 5 - 7 minutes before printing starts. Printing from
any other program or any other type of file (also .bmp) works very
well and printing takes maybe 30 seconds.
Anyone with an idea as to what could be wrong? error log and access
logs do not give any information.
Cupsd.conf is attached if it's of any help.
All suggestions are very, very welcome :-D
-- 
regards,
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It comes bundled with Windows.# CUPS configuration file, generated by CUPS configuration tool.
# This tool is part of KDEPrint, the printing framework for KDE
# since version 2.2.2 and is used by the CUPS supporting module
# in KDEPrint. The predecessors to KDEPrint in former KDE releases
# were KUPS and QtCUPS; they are deprecated and no longer maintained.
#
# Author: Michael Goffioul 
#
# Web site: http://printing.kde.org/
#

#  #
# This is the CUPS configuration file.  If you are familiar with   #
# Apache or any of the other popular web servers, we've followed the   #
# same format.  Any configuration variable used here has the same  #
# semantics as the corresponding variable in Apache.  If we need   #
# different functionality then a different name is used to avoid   #
# confusion... #
#  #

#

# Server

# Server name (ServerName)
# 
# The hostname of your server, as advertised to the world.
# By default CUPS will use the hostname of the system.
# 
# To set the default server used by clients, see the client.conf file.
# 
# ex: myhost.domain.com
#
#ServerName myhost.domain.com


# Server administrator (ServerAdmin)
# 
# The email address to send all complaints or problems to.
# By default CUPS will use "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
# 
# ex: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
#ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]


# Classification (Classification)
# 
# The classification level of the server.  If set, this
# classification is displayed on all pages, and raw printing is disabled.
# The default is the empty string.
# 
# ex: confidential
#
#Classification classified

Classification none

# Allow overrides (ClassifyOverride)
# 
# Whether to allow users to override the classification
# on printouts. If enabled, users can limit banner pages to before or
# after the job, and can change the classification of a job, but cannot
# completely eliminate the classification or banners.
# 
# The default is off.
#
#ClassifyOverride off


# Default character set (DefaultCharset)
# 
# The default character set to use. If not specified,
# defaults to utf-8.  Note that this can also be overridden in
# HTML documents...
# 
# ex: utf-8
#
#DefaultCharset utf-8

DefaultCharset ISO-8859-1

# Default language (DefaultLanguage)
# 
# The default language if not specified by the browser.
# If not specified, the current locale is used.
# 
# ex: en
#
#DefaultLanguage en

DefaultLanguage no

# Printcap file (Printcap)
# 
# The name of the printcap file.  Default is no filename.
# Leave blank to disable printcap file generation.
# 
# ex: /etc/printcap
#
#Printcap /etc/printcap

Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap


PrintcapFormat BSD

# Security

# Remote root user (RemoteRoot)
# 
# The name of the user assigned to unauthenticated accesses
# from remote systems.  By default "remroot".
# 
# ex: remroot
#
#RemoteRoot remroot

RemoteRoot remroot

# System group (SystemGroup)
# 
# The group name for "System" (printer administration)
# access.  The default varies depending on the operating system, but
# will be sys, system, or root (checked for in that order).
# 
# ex: lpadmin
#
#SystemGroup lpadmin

SystemGroup lpadmin

# Encryption certificate (ServerCertificate)
# 
# The file to read containing the server's certificate.
# Defaults to "/etc/cups/ssl/server.crt".
# 
# ex: /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt
#
#ServerCertificate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt

ServerCertificate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt

# Encryption key (ServerKey)
# 
# The file to read containing the server's key.
# Defaults to "/etc/cups/ssl/server.key".
# 
# ex

Re: Problem: printing to HP LaserJet - SAMBA and CUPS problem?

[MJD]

When I was setting up a HP Laserjet connected to linux, I found you needed the line under the [printers]:use client driver = trueor something like that, google for it.  When the [printers] section is set up right, then you don't need your last section.  Just make sure to put the HP Laserjet driver for printer is selected in windows.
On 11/28/05, Emre Sevinç <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Debian masters,I have installed a Debian box at the office which is mainly a Windowsnetwork:emba-master:/home/emres# uname -aLinux emba-master 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686
GNU/LinuxThen I also installed SAMBA and CUPS. For now, we can connect to Debian anduse it as a file server. It is also possible to sit in front of themachine and print tothe HP LaserJet 1100 connected to it.
*Problem*: I just can't make MS Windows PCs print to HP LaserJetinstalled on Debian.Here's smb.conf:==emba-master:/home/emres# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf | egrep -v " *(;|#)"
[global]  workgroup = emba.networks  server string = %h server (Samba %v)  log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m  max log size = 1000  syslog = 0  panic action = "" %d
  security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY[webroot]  comment  = Web Server Root  path = /var/www/apache2-default/web/  writable = yes[homes]  comment  = Home Directories
  browseable = yes[Programs]  path = /home/winshare/programs/  comment  = Programs  writable = yes[Games]  path = /home/winshare/games/  comment  = Games  writable = yes
[Movies]  path = /home/winshare/movies/  comment  = Movies  writable = yes  writable = yes  create mask = 0777  directory mask = 0777[printers][print$]  comment = Printer Drivers
  path = /var/lib/samba/printers  browseable = yes  read >  guest ok = yes[EmbaPrinter]   comment = EmbaPrinter   writeable = yes   printable = yes   path = /var/spool/samba
==And cupsaddsmb worked without problems:=emba-master:/home/emres# cupsaddsmb -H emba-master -U root -h
emba-master -v EmbaPrinterPassword for root required to access emba-master via SAMBA:Running command: rpcclient emba-master -N -U'root%X' -c 'setdriverEmbaPrinter EmbaPrinter'Succesfully set EmbaPrinter to driver EmbaPrinter.
=However, when I connect from a MS Windows PC to \\emba-master and see aprinternamed EmbaPrinter and right-click on it, trying to Connect it doesn't
provide me anyvalid driver (showing an unrelated local folder on my PC).Besides, as you see above there's a "path = /var/lib/samba/printers"line in smb.comhowever:
=emba-master:/home/emres# ls -laR /var/lib/samba/printers//var/lib/samba/printers/:toplam 16drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:50 ..drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 W32X86drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 WIN40/var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86:toplam 8drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 ../var/lib/samba/printers/WIN40:toplam 8drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 .drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 ..==
Where are the drivers? Am I doing something wrong?Another strange situation when I start my Windows Explorer to browse\\emba-masterin the "Printers" shared folder I see another printer called "lp dot
matrix printer" whichI didn't define in smb.conf; I also tried my chance with that, trying toinstall some HPdriver but then I still couldn't print.What shoul I check? How can I troubleshoot this?
All I need is to be able to print from MS Windows clients to the HPLaserJet installedon Debian (which is working fine locally).Cheers,Emre SevincIstanbul Bilgi University--
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Problem: printing to HP LaserJet - SAMBA and CUPS problem?

[Emre Sevinç]

Hi Debian masters,

I have installed a Debian box at the office which is mainly a Windows 
network:


emba-master:/home/emres# uname -a
Linux emba-master 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Mon May 16 16:47:51 JST 2005 i686 
GNU/Linux


Then I also installed SAMBA and CUPS. For now, we can connect to Debian and
use it as a file server. It is also possible to sit in front of the 
machine and print to

the HP LaserJet 1100 connected to it.

*Problem*: I just can't make MS Windows PCs print to HP LaserJet 
installed on Debian.


Here's smb.conf:

==
emba-master:/home/emres# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf | egrep -v " *(;|#)"

[global]
 workgroup = emba.networks
 server string = %h server (Samba %v)
 log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
 max log size = 1000
 syslog = 0
 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
 security = user
socket options = TCP_NODELAY

[webroot]
 comment  = Web Server Root
 path = /var/www/apache2-default/web/
 writable = yes

[homes]
 comment  = Home Directories
 browseable = yes

[Programs]
 path = /home/winshare/programs/
 comment  = Programs
 writable = yes

[Games]
 path = /home/winshare/games/
 comment  = Games
 writable = yes

[Movies]
 path = /home/winshare/movies/
 comment  = Movies
 writable = yes

 writable = yes
 create mask = 0777
 directory mask = 0777

[printers]

[print$]
 comment = Printer Drivers
 path = /var/lib/samba/printers
 browseable = yes
 read only = yes
 guest ok = yes

[EmbaPrinter]
  comment = EmbaPrinter
  writeable = yes
  printable = yes
  path = /var/spool/samba
==


And cupsaddsmb worked without problems:

=
emba-master:/home/emres# cupsaddsmb -H emba-master -U root -h 
emba-master -v EmbaPrinter


Password for root required to access emba-master via SAMBA:
Running command: rpcclient emba-master -N -U'root%X' -c 'setdriver 
EmbaPrinter EmbaPrinter'

Succesfully set EmbaPrinter to driver EmbaPrinter.
=

However, when I connect from a MS Windows PC to \\emba-master and see a 
printer
named EmbaPrinter and right-click on it, trying to Connect it doesn't 
provide me any

valid driver (showing an unrelated local folder on my PC).

Besides, as you see above there's a "path = /var/lib/samba/printers" 
line in smb.com

however:

=
emba-master:/home/emres# ls -laR /var/lib/samba/printers/
/var/lib/samba/printers/:
toplam 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 W32X86
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 WIN40

/var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86:
toplam 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 ..

/var/lib/samba/printers/WIN40:
toplam 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-05-27 10:16 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 2005-11-25 00:48 ..
==

Where are the drivers? Am I doing something wrong?

Another strange situation when I start my Windows Explorer to browse 
\\emba-master
in the "Printers" shared folder I see another printer called "lp dot 
matrix printer" which
I didn't define in smb.conf; I also tried my chance with that, trying to 
install some HP

driver but then I still couldn't print.

What shoul I check? How can I troubleshoot this?

All I need is to be able to print from MS Windows clients to the HP 
LaserJet installed

on Debian (which is working fine locally).

Cheers,
Emre Sevinc
Istanbul Bilgi University



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Re: cups problem

[L.V.Gandhi]

On 9/24/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 24/09/05, L.V.Gandhi <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have debian sarge with all updates. I have cups installed. Using
http://localhost:631 I can configure and print in ff. But when I try to
access printers in control center, I get message Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: connection refused.
I am unable to print from kde apps. What to do?-- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
linux user No.205042

In /etc/network/interfaces, please make sure that there are lines which say:





# The loopback network interfaceauto loiface lo inet loopback
I have these lines. Still I have problem. Anything to do with cups configuration? 
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Re: cups problem

[David R. Litwin]

On 24/09/05, L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have debian sarge with all updates. I have cups installed. Using
http://localhost:631 I can configure and print in ff. But when I try to
access printers in control center, I get message Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: connection refused.
I am unable to print from kde apps. What to do?-- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
linux user No.205042

In /etc/network/interfaces, please make sure that there are lines which say:





# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—‽ <--You've just been Interrobanged.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

cups problem

[L.V.Gandhi]

I have debian sarge with all updates. I have cups installed. Using
http://localhost:631 I can configure and print in ff. But when I try to
access printers in control center, I get message Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: connection refused.
I am unable to print from kde apps. What to do?-- L.V.Gandhihttp://lvgandhi.tripod.com/linux user No.205042

Re: AVOIDED: ghostscript/cups problem

[Richard Lyons]

On Wednesday 13 October 2004 12:54, Michael Graham wrote:
> Richard wrote:
> > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups
> > problem? 
> > [...] 
> 
> Have you tried asking on the cups newsgroups? Details here:
> http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php
> or the GNU ghostscript newsgroup
> news://gnu.ghostscript.bug
> 
> Personally I'd try the cups newsgroups first, no real reason but I
> tend to work from the top down. So Distro newsgroup -> Application
> newsgroup -> Application dependencies newsgroup.

Thanks, Michael, that is useful advice.  I'll follow it next time.  

In the mean time, I have sidestepped the problem without actually 
solving it (hence "AVOIDED" rather than "SOLVED" in subject line) by 
reinstalling the printer.  So I'm keeping the URLs for the next 
occasion.

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Re: ghostscript/cups problem

[Michael Graham]

Richard wrote:
> Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups
> problem?  I did try asking here but got no response (problem of
> ghostscript cropping A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing that).
>  I have googled with no success and have no idea how to proceed.

Have you tried asking on the cups newsgroups? Details here:

http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php

or the GNU ghostscript newsgroup

news://gnu.ghostscript.bug

Personally I'd try the cups newsgroups first, no real reason but I tend
to work from the top down. So Distro newsgroup -> Application
newsgroup -> Application dependencies newsgroup.

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Re: ghostscript/cups problem

[Richard Lyons]

On Tuesday 12 October 2004 19:22, ognen wrote:
> Richard Lyons wrote:
> 
> > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups
> > problem?  I  did try asking here but got no response (problem of
> > ghostscript cropping  A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing
> > that).  I have googled with no  success and have no idea how to
> > proceed. 
> >
> go to the cups admin page (http://localhost:631) - select "manage 
> printers" then select your printer, after which go to "configure 
> printer" and  then look at "media size" -- check to make sure it is set 
> correctly (i.e. A3 not A4) -- thats the only thing i can think of that 
> would cause cropping of A3 pages to A4

I should have said that I had done all the normal things.  It prints 
only the A4 part of the image regardless of what the printer 
configuration is set to do.  That is why I was looking for an expert 
forum in which to enquire.  

I do have a secondary problem that one workstation will not allow 
configuration changes (client-error-not-authorized), even though its 
cupsd.conf is effectively identical to the box that does let me set A3.  
But I'll be happy if I can get it to work again from the second box.  It 
did work as expected when I first installed the printer, about three 
months ago, and I do not know of any changes that I have made that would 
affect it.  The two boxes are running sid and sarge, FWIW.

Thanks anyway,

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Re: ghostscript/cups problem

[ognen]

go to the cups admin page (http://localhost:631) - select "manage 
printers" then select your printer, after which go to "configure 
printer" and  then look at "media size" -- check to make sure it is set 
correctly (i.e. A3 not A4) -- thats the only thing i can think of that 
would cause cropping of A3 pages to A4

Richard Lyons wrote:
Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups problem?  I 
did try asking here but got no response (problem of ghostscript cropping 
A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing that).  I have googled with no 
success and have no idea how to proceed.

TIA
 


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ghostscript/cups problem

[Richard Lyons]

Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups problem?  I 
did try asking here but got no response (problem of ghostscript cropping 
A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing that).  I have googled with no 
success and have no idea how to proceed.

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Re: CUPS Problem

[Gregory Seidman]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:22:26PM +0100, Arnaud Blanchard wrote:
} I use a printer in network but CUPS doesn't work. When I use the printer 
} manager and choose CUPS I receive the error message:
}  
} "Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
} Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly 
} installed and running. Error: connection refused."
} 
} In the bottom of the window, I can see: "Connected to localhost: 631"

This means that the server does not have permissions set correctly for
other machines to use its print queues. Look in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
file on the server toward the end, where you should find some 

CUPS Problem

[Arnaud Blanchard]

Hello, 

I use a printer in network but CUPS doesn't work. When I use the printer 
manager and choose CUPS I receive the error message:
 
"Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly 
installed and running. Error: connection refused."

In the bottom of the window, I can see: "Connected to localhost: 631"

Thank you !


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CUPS problem

[Manu]

Hi

I have a problem with CUPS. I use to be able to
print to my network printer HP 4050.

Now I have the following message on the printer
"40 EIO X bad transmission"

Any idea what is wrong?

I use the appSocket/HP -> HP -> Laserjet driver

I have tried many other thing and still cannot get it
to work

Thanks for your help

Manu





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cups problem - I think

[Richard Lyons]

Recently - probably since an update ten days or so ago - the printout 
from some apps (Mozilla and Qcad) are printed turned 90 degrees, so 
that a chunk is off the page.  Other apps print normally.  I did a 
further update today as the foomatic bug has been squashed, and now 
foomatic has been installed correctly, but that has not helped.  If I 
tell qcad it is printing portrait, it gets the landscape format drawing 
the right way up, but lines starting right of where the page supposedly 
would be are omitted, so that is little help.

Running sid.  Printer is a xerox docuprint using "Xerox DocuPrint 4508 
foomatic/ljet4 (recommended)" printer driver -- it is in fact a 
docuprint 4512, but I seem to be the only person in the world with one 
of those.  It worked before.

Anyone seen anything similar?  More important, can anyone suggest what I 
have set up wrong?

TIA

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Re: Cups Problem - Restated

[Florian Ernst]

Hello Thomas!

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:11:42AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
Any ideas?
No, not from me, sorry.

Cheers,
Flo


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Re: Cups Problem - Restated

[Thomas H. George]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:15:21AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote:
> Hello Thomas!
> 
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:48:46PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >My printer is suddenly not available and both lpstat -p and lpadmin -p 
> >ep -E result in the message
> >
> >   /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information available (required 
> >by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2)
> >
> >I am running the testing distribution and apt-get update, apt-get 
> >dist-upgrade show it is completely up to date.
> >dpkg -l shows libgnutls5 0.8.8-2 and libgnutls7 0.8.9-2 are installed.
> >
> >What must I do to fix this problem?
> 
> It looks like the dependencies of cupsys are slightly outdated.
> You can try to install libgnutls7 from unstable now which will also
> pull in libopencdk4 or wait until it will trickle into testing by
> itself.
> 
> But are you sure this is what made your printer unavailable? I had
> mine working just fine despite this message...
> 
> HTH,
> Flo

You were right, the problem is elsewhere.  Specificly, lpstat -s
reported that the printer was assigned to /dev/null !!!

When I tried to correct this I found the available device list has been
butchered.  Specifically, lpinfo -v reports only network, direct scsi
and serial devices - no parallel and no usb.

This is hard to understand.  On bootup the printer is recognized as a
usb device and escputil -i -u -r /dev/usblp0 properly reports the ink
levels.  usb support was built into the current kernel which I built on
Oct 26 and the printer was working perfectly until yesterday. 

Any ideas?

Tom


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Re: Cups Problem

[Florian Ernst]

Hello Thomas!

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 01:48:46PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
My printer is suddenly not available and both lpstat -p and lpadmin -p 
ep -E result in the message

   /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information available (required 
by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2)

I am running the testing distribution and apt-get update, apt-get 
dist-upgrade show it is completely up to date.
dpkg -l shows libgnutls5 0.8.8-2 and libgnutls7 0.8.9-2 are installed.

What must I do to fix this problem?
It looks like the dependencies of cupsys are slightly outdated.
You can try to install libgnutls7 from unstable now which will also
pull in libopencdk4 or wait until it will trickle into testing by
itself.
But are you sure this is what made your printer unavailable? I had
mine working just fine despite this message...
HTH,
Flo


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Cups Problem

[Thomas H. George]

My printer is suddenly not available and both lpstat -p and lpadmin -p 
ep -E result in the message

   /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information available (required 
by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2)

I am running the testing distribution and apt-get update, apt-get 
dist-upgrade show it is completely up to date.
dpkg -l shows libgnutls5 0.8.8-2 and libgnutls7 0.8.9-2 are installed.

What must I do to fix this problem?

Tom

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Re: unstable cups problem

[Lou Losee]

* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-26 05:37]:
  
> As cups does not allow ordinary users to cancel jobs, I have to log out, log 
> on as root and start a root KDE session - which I hate to do at all - in 
> order to open print manager and kill the waiting jobs.

The print jobs can still be managed via the command line.  Use lpq to
view the jobs, lprm 'spool-number' to remove them.  If you are not
authorized to delete the job, use sudo to gain root authority for the
command.

Lou


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Re: unstable cups problem

[Richard Lyons]

On Sunday 26 October 2003 11:25, Richard Lyons wrote:
[...]
> Since the update, cups doesn't actually print anything. 
[...]

SORRY - to reply to my own post.  Problem solved wondoze-style: reboot.

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unstable cups problem

[Richard Lyons]

I've just done an update on a system that was originally a Knoppix 2.1 
install, and is now mainly unstable (I suppose). 

Since the update, cups doesn't actually print anything.  The jobs appear in 
the print manager (under KDE) as "Processing..." and stay there permanently.  
As cups does not allow ordinary users to cancel jobs, I have to log out, log 
on as root and start a root KDE session - which I hate to do at all - in 
order to open print manager and kill the waiting jobs.  Even the test print 
does the same.  Printer is a Xerox Docuprint4512, fwiw, and did work 
previously (the driver selected was called "Docuprint 4508 Foomatic/ljet4" - 
the nearest available).

Where do I look for a lead?

TIA

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CUPS problem with lpd printer on unstable

[Carl D. Blake]

I have 2 debian unstable systems with cupsys version 1.1.19final-1
installed.  Both systems exhibit the same problem when attempting to
print to an lpd based printer on a RedHat 6.2 system.  An error message
is reported by cups that says "Connected from port 515..."  I have
another debian stable system with cupsys version 1.1.14-5 installed that
has no problems printing to this printer at all.  There is another
printer that is a standalone network printer with an lpd port that
cupsys 1.1.19final-1 can print to without a problem.  There's just
something about the combination of 1.1.19final-1 and RedHat 6.2 lpd that
doesn't work.  Does anybody know how to fix this?



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Burning Cups problem

[Frank Van Damme]

Hello,

I have a slight problem. I am running Debian on 3 machines at home (one router 
and 2 desktops) and I am trying to get cups to run on the router, attach my 
printer to it (deskjet 690C). The hardware part is no problem ;-) but the 
software part is. 

I installed the following packages:

apt-get install foomatic-db/unstable foomatic-db-engine  a2ps gs gsfonts 
foomatic-db-hpijs/unstable hpijs/testing foomatic-bin/unstable 
foomatic-filters libxml2/testing cupsys

The packages from testing and unstable are because of dependencies of the 
foomatic and hpijs packages. 

First of all cups runs very slowly. When requesting a page from the web 
interface, cups will take cpu times for about 2 minutes. My router is only a 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] MHz computer but I never had problems with cups on a pentium 133.

Adding a printer poses a problem: the admin has to select the device the 
printer is connected to from a dropdown list, and normally the parallel port 
and usb ports are in there. But this dropdown is simply empty! 

What can I do about this? It's a parallel port printer, the lp kernel module 
is loaded and I can see that the hardware id properly recognised:

# cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe
CLASS:PRINTER;
MODEL:DESKJET 690C;
MANUFACTURER:HEWLETT-PACKARD;
DESCRIPTION:Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 690C;
COMMAND SET:MLC,PCL,PML;


Can someone please give me a hint? I struggled with it for quit a bit of time 
now. Thanks!


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Re: Cups problem

[Hanasaki JiJi]

sarge says to use foomatic instead of cupsomatic-ppd.  cupsomatic works 
like a charm.  with just foomatic, no printes were available in the 
webinterface.  the foomatic-compiledb built the drivers in /boot (Dam) 
and they still were not available via the web interface.

===
Package: cupsomatic-ppd
 This package is kept to help upgrading.  For new installations please
 try foomatic-bin plus foomatic-db first.
Kevin McKinley wrote:
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 01:04:08 -0500
Andy Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

n-dimensional confuscation ;-/

If you use gs(-esp) [is either needed?], which came first:  gs(-esp) or
cupsys?


I have these packages installed:

cupsys 1.1.18-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
cupsys-bsd 1.1.18-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
cupsys-client  1.1.18-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro
libcupsys2 1.1.18-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
gs 7.05-3 The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter
gs-common  0.3.3.1Common files for different Ghostscript relea
gs-esp 7.05.6-1   The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter - ESP
gsfonts6.0-2.1Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
gsfonts-x110.17   Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11
I don't have any of the foomatic packages, the cupsys-driver-gimpprint, or
the cupsomatic packages.
I'm not sure how the gs packages got there. I don't remember installing them
with cupsys, so maybe I installed them along with something else (like
a2ps).
I see the need for a CUPS HOWTO. I've contacted the LDP about working on it
(the person who proposed it has apparently lost interest).
Kevin


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Re: Cups problem

[Kevin McKinley]

On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 01:04:08 -0500
Andy Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> n-dimensional confuscation ;-/
> 
> If you use gs(-esp) [is either needed?], which came first:  gs(-esp) or
> cupsys?

I have these packages installed:

cupsys 1.1.18-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
cupsys-bsd 1.1.18-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
cupsys-client  1.1.18-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro
libcupsys2 1.1.18-2   Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
gs 7.05-3 The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter
gs-common  0.3.3.1Common files for different Ghostscript relea
gs-esp 7.05.6-1   The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter - ESP
gsfonts6.0-2.1Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
gsfonts-x110.17   Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11

I don't have any of the foomatic packages, the cupsys-driver-gimpprint, or
the cupsomatic packages.

I'm not sure how the gs packages got there. I don't remember installing them
with cupsys, so maybe I installed them along with something else (like
a2ps).

I see the need for a CUPS HOWTO. I've contacted the LDP about working on it
(the person who proposed it has apparently lost interest).

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Re: Cups problem

[Andy Hurt]

Jens wrote:
On April 4, 2003 07:24 pm, Andy Hurt wrote:


Questions:
I am runnning 'unstable' - is there anything printing related that is
broken ?
Is there anything real obvious here that I am forgetting to do ?

I did try all kinds of google searches but haven't come up with anything
useful there.
Egads--I'm not the only one!

I can print like crazy from every program/console--
it's only the test page that won't print.


I now believe that something VERY fundamentally is wrong with my setup. 
Everything cups related seems to work as I would expect it to except there is 
no print. I finally (should have started there - d) started checking 
the basics such as redirecting a 'cat' listing to a printer through the 
command line and I am getting nowhere. I also discovered some inconsistencies 
in /dev in regards to the ports although I haven't quite figured out why I 
don't like what I see (gut feeling.).
I will have some time tomorrow and I will unload everything printer related 
and start from square -1.

BTW, when I was searching for similar problems via google, I ran into a few 
mentions of 'not able to print test pages but everything else works' - this 
doesn't seem to be something that only you have run into (well, I suppose 
that those posts could have been from you :) ).

I will post the results when I have figured out what is happening.

I don't think I mentioned that the printer dialog thu KWord and KWrite would 
crash the programs if cups was selected as the printer protocol (or whatever 
they call it). Also, when I run the KDE 3.1 print manager application and I 
have cups selected as the print system, clicking on either of the two 
configured printers will crash the print manager.

I didn't pay much attention to all this for a while since a lot of weird 
things and crashes have shown up in the unstable branch since KDE 3.1 was 
introduced.
I wich my brain hadn't already gone to sleep--I could sure use it right now.

I don't think I've mentioned my 'difficulty' any where but here, so I guess I 
need to search what they are about.

Thanks for your thoughts--If I can get some concise thoughts together tommorrow, 
I'll offer what I have (installed progs/settings/etc.), and maybe we can track 
this down.
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Re: Cups problem

[Andy Hurt]

Kevin McKinley wrote:
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:24:49 -0500
Andy Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I run unstable.  I can print like crazy from every program/
console--only the test page won't print [from CUPS Adm].
This is a new dimension. I've heard of people being able to print a test
page but nothing else; this is the first I've *ever* heard of being able to
print anything *but* a test page.
I installed Woody r1 and upgraded to Sid; I can print either test pages or
regular ones.
n-dimensional confuscation ;-/

Well, it seems likely to not be Sid-specific--there must be some sort of 
commonality between Jens's and my setup/configuration that is precipitating 
this.  Unfortunately, AFAIK, an adequate simulation of my setup/configuration 
would be my setup, itself, so . . . .

If you use gs(-esp) [is either needed?], which came first:  gs(-esp) or cupsys?
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Re: Cups problem

[Kevin McKinley]

On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:24:49 -0500
Andy Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Egads--I'm not the only one!
> 
> I have a HP 5L-Parallel, and run unstable.  I can print like crazy from
> every program/console--it's only the test page that won't print.  When I
> try to > -- snip -- I've gone to so many ends to resolve the matter
> (re-configured/tweaked/modified just about everything related to
> cups/gs-esp that I could try), and _can_ print production-style, so I just
> gave up on the test page.
> 
> Can't find anything of direct relevance at news.easysw.com/cups.general or
> 
> news.easysw.com/cups.bugs, and I still have yet to finalize my 
> configuration-diagnosis/thoughts for a post there.
> 
> Can you print outside of localhost/631?
> 
> Print Test Page worked last month (prior install of 3.0r1, upgraded to 
> unstable)--sure would like to see it, again, just once  ;-)

This is a new dimension. I've heard of people being able to print a test
page but nothing else; this is the first I've *ever* heard of being able to
print anything *but* a test page.

I installed Woody r1 and upgraded to Sid; I can print either test pages or
regular ones.

Kevin

P.S. Please don't reply directly to me; I get the list messages :)


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Re: Cups problem

[Andy Hurt]

Jens wrote:
I am having problems with cups on a system I recently set up. I loaded 
(apt-get install) cupsys and gs-esp is also loaded. I can open the admin page 
at http://localhost:631, I can add printers, I can see the cues but any test 
pages are instantly cancelled. Looking at the erro_log file I see a message 
of unable to convert file to printable format with a hint of 'check if esp 
ghostscript is loaded' ... and it seems to be (I removed and reloaded just to 
be sure). The two printers I have added show as being idle and accepting 
jobs. I have set up several instances of cups in the past and I don't recall 
ever having any trouble with this.

Questions:
I am runnning 'unstable' - is there anything printing related that is broken ?
Is there anything real obvious here that I am forgetting to do ?

I did try all kinds of google searches but haven't come up with anything 
useful there.
Egads--I'm not the only one!

I have a HP 5L-Parallel, and run unstable.  I can print like crazy from every 
program/console--it's only the test page that won't print.  When I try to print 
the test, the light blinks on the printer a couple of times, but there is no 
output.  Seeing only the 'check if esp ghostscript is loaded' thing, I 
eventually set 'LogLevel debug' in /etc/cups/cups.conf, and think I have it 
narrowed to:

[. . .]

D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] 0 %%Page: 1 1
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] 0 %%Page: 1 1
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] pw = 612.0, pl = 792.0
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] PageLeft = 0.0, PageRight = 612.0
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] PageTop = 792.0, PageBottom = 0.0
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] CloseClient() 8
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] perl: warning: Please check that your 
locale settings:
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] LANGUAGE = (unset),
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] LC_ALL = (unset),
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] LANG = "en"
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] are supported and installed on your system.
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] perl: warning: Falling back to the 
standard locale ("C").
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] 0 %%EOF
D [01/Apr/2003:18:43:27 -0500] [Job 2] Saw EOF!
E [01/Apr/2003:18:43:28 -0500] PID 6424 stopped with status 32!

LC*="en_US" for both root and normal user--even tried setting 
ENVIRONMENT="en_US" to no avail ;-(

Might possibly be something different for you, but there is an amazing 
similarity in our problem.

I've gone to so many ends to resolve the matter (re-configured/tweaked/modified 
just about everything related to cups/gs-esp that I could try), and _can_ print 
production-style, so I just gave up on the test page.

Can't find anything of direct relevance at news.easysw.com/cups.general or 
news.easysw.com/cups.bugs, and I still have yet to finalize my 
configuration-diagnosis/thoughts for a post there.

Can you print outside of localhost/631?

Print Test Page worked last month (prior install of 3.0r1, upgraded to 
unstable)--sure would like to see it, again, just once  ;-)
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Re: Cups problem

[ronin2]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 06:27:24 -0500
Michael Bevilacqua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Did you remember to
> 
> `/etc/pnm2ppa.conf`
> 
> since the Debian package pnm2ppa has a bug where it doesn't install a
> default conf which kills CUPS? Alternatively, you can go to
> /usr/doc/pnm2ppa/ to get other prewritten confs.

The pnm2ppa package is for using HP DeskJet printers; AFAIK Jens doesn't
have one of those, so doesn't need the package.

What would `/etc/pnm2ppa.conf` do anyway?

Kevin


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Re: Cups problem

[Michael Bevilacqua]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:32:50PM -0800, Jens wrote:
> Is there anything real obvious here that I am forgetting to do ?

Did you remember to

`/etc/pnm2ppa.conf`

since the Debian package pnm2ppa has a bug where it doesn't install a
default conf which kills CUPS? Alternatively, you can go to
/usr/doc/pnm2ppa/ to get other prewritten confs.

I wrote a little howto on setting up CUPS that has worked great for me
and a few others. Its located at:

http://bevilacqua.us/HowTo/MichaelBevilacqua/CUPS/Debian/HowTo.txt

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Cups problem

[Riccardo Gusso]

Hello,
yesterday I have installed cups and successfully configured my Epson
Stylus Color 580 usb printer to work with my Sid. I have printed some
pages, and everything seemed to work. Today I have tried to print a
three pages file from xemacs, and after two of them the printer stopped.
I have tried to stop and restart the job, to stop and restart the
printer, but nothing happened. Then I checked printer configuration,
from http://localhost:631, and I have discovered that it proposed me not
anymore the device /dev/usb/lp0, which was assigned the first time I
added the printer, but the very mysterious one
usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20580?serial=L84020010301225430
I found this very strange, but I finished the re-configuration and
restarted cupsys, but again the printer didn't respond. So I tried to
re-assign the former device /dev/usb/lp0 with lpadmin, to restart
cupsys, with no result. Then I decided to purge cups packages
(cupsys-1.1.18-2, cupsys-bsd-1.1.18-2,  cupsys-client-1.1.18-2   
cupsys-driver-gimp-print-4.2.5-2), to delete every still existing
configuration file related to cups and to try to reinstall the packages
again to see if I could put the system back in the state in which the
printer was working, but again when I added the printer it was assigned
to device usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20580?serial=L84020010301225430 (I
don't yet know where cups gets the information to assign this device); I
tried to print again, nothing; I tried to assign again /dev/usb/lp0,
nothing; then I set debug level to 'debug', restarted the daemon and I
have given a look to /var/log/cups/error_log, and I have seen these
lines:
---
I [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] Job 4 queued on 'epsonnew' by ''.
D [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] Job 4 hold_until = 0
D [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] StartJob(4, 0x8086ea8)
D [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] StartJob() id = 4, file = 0/1
E [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] Unable to convert file 0 to printable
format for job 4!
I [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript
installed?
D [14/Mar/2003:01:10:45 +0100] CancelJob: id = 4
---

but I have package  gs-esp-7.05.6-1 installed on my system!
At this point I really don't know what to do to make my printer work
again as it was doing before, so if you have any suggestion please help
me.
Bye,
   Riccardo
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Re: CUPS problem

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Robert Estes said:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure
> how to handle the bug reporting.  I've spent quite a bit of time debugging
> this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... 
> 
> Do I have to figure out exactly where the problem is before submitting a
> bug report?

No, not exactly.  The bug will be reassigned by the maintainer if you
file it on the wrong package.  Why don't you tell the list what the
problem is, first, though - it may not be a bug per se, but some poorly
documented or unexpected 'feature' instead.

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Re: CUPS problem

[Dave Sherohman]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:26:24AM -0800, Robert Estes wrote:
> I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure
> how to handle the bug reporting.  I've spent quite a bit of time debugging
> this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... 
> 
> Do I have to figure out exactly where the problem is before submitting a
> bug report?

It helps, but isn't entirely necessary, as the maintainers can
reassign it to a different package.  In this case (without knowing
anything about the specific problem), I would just file the bug
against cupsys, since that's the core piece.

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CUPS problem

[Robert Estes]

Hi,

I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure
how to handle the bug reporting.  I've spent quite a bit of time debugging
this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ... 

Do I have to figure out exactly where the problem is before submitting a
bug report?

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Re: CUPS Problem

[Carel Fellinger]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:45:58PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have installed CUPS from the stable distro onto my machine.  When I
> point my browser at http://localhost:631/ I can see the printer info
> pages and docu and all that, but http://localhost:631/admin asks for a
> username and password, then gives a 404 Not Found error.  I have
> installed the cupsys, libcupsys and cupsys-bsd packages.  What am I
> doing wrong?

In one of cups config files one is expected to fill in who is allowed
to do management tasks in cups.  File your user name there and all
should work.  [The machine that runs cups is off at the moment, if
you have troubles locating the proper file, ask again and I will look]

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CUPS Problem

[Tom Cook]

Hi all,

I have installed CUPS from the stable distro onto my machine.  When I
point my browser at http://localhost:631/ I can see the printer info
pages and docu and all that, but http://localhost:631/admin asks for a
username and password, then gives a 404 Not Found error.  I have
installed the cupsys, libcupsys and cupsys-bsd packages.  What am I
doing wrong?

On a completely different topic, I have a debian box at home which I am
using to dialup to work and connect to my debian box there.  nslookup
and dig connect to the work DNS correctly and can resolve my work box
from a name to an IP address, but if I try to ssh to it, ssh eventually
dies with errors about not being able to connect to host 192.168.0.1.  I
can ssh to the machine if I specify an IP directly, though.  Why does
ssh (seemingly) not use the libc resolving stuff correctly?  Does this
have something to do with acquiring a dynamic IP address every time I
dial up?  I ask this because I think ssh resolved the name correctly the
first time I dialed up.

Thanks
Tom

CUPS Problem

[Thomas H. George]

Until yesterday I only downloaded from the debian stable distributions.

Yesterday, to get stcolor.ppd,  I used apt-get install cupsys after 
updating the package list for the testing distribution.  Three packages 
were added and 14 upgraded.


I then ran lpadmin -p Epson -E -v usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -m stcolor.ppd and 
got the following:


lpadmin: error while loading shared libraries: lpadmin: undefined 
symbol: httpConnectEncrypt


How do I fix this?

(Note:  While running debian linux 2.2.19 I have as yet not been able to 
print anything with my Epson Stylus Color 860 attached to the usb port.  
It works fine with that "other operating system".  It also works with 
debian if I use the parallel port but not if the Visioneer One Touch 
scanner is connected to the parallel port and the printer is connected 
to the scanner.  Since I must resort to "that other operating system" to 
use the scanner, I would really like to make the printer work from the 
usb port.)

Re: CUPS problem

[Andrew Wettstein]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:17:44PM -0500, David Grill Watson wrote:
> I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two 
> computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the 
> same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can 
> only use the IPP backend.

this is some kind of timing issue.  keep doing a /etc/init.d/cups restart
and then look at the printing backends and they should keep changing.

you can either use version 1.1.16 off the cups web site, or go with the
other soluting mentioned and use lprng and magicfilter, which is what I did.

> 
> When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the 
> option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a 
> disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more than 
> a bit difficult.
> 
> I've tried dpkg --purge on all the CUPS packages, deleting all of the config 
> files just to be safe (well, really just the /etc/cups directory), and 
> reinstalling all the packages multiple times, but the other backends just 
> won't show up. They are there in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but for some reason 
> CUPS is not detecting them.
> 
> I can print to a network CUPS server with no problems.
> 
> I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be.
> 
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Re: CUPS problem

[Olaf Foellinger]

* David Grill Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22.02.01 16:48]wrote:

> I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two 
> computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the 
> same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can 
> only use the IPP backend.
> 
> When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the 
> option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a 
> disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more than 
> a bit difficult.
> 
> I've tried dpkg --purge on all the CUPS packages, deleting all of the config 
> files just to be safe (well, really just the /etc/cups directory), and 
> reinstalling all the packages multiple times, but the other backends just 
> won't show up. They are there in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but for some reason 
> CUPS is not detecting them.
> 
> I can print to a network CUPS server with no problems.
> 
> I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be.

I did have the same problem here but didn't find a solution. Now I print
with lprng and magicfilter.

Grettings Olaf

Re: CUPS problem

[Dave Sherohman]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:17:44PM -0500, David Grill Watson wrote:
> When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the 
> option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a 
> disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more than 
> a bit difficult.

> I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be.

Just a guess, but did you include parallel port support in the kernel?

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CUPS problem

[David Grill Watson]

I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two 
computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the 
same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can 
only use the IPP backend.

When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the 
option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a 
disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more than 
a bit difficult.

I've tried dpkg --purge on all the CUPS packages, deleting all of the config 
files just to be safe (well, really just the /etc/cups directory), and 
reinstalling all the packages multiple times, but the other backends just 
won't show up. They are there in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but for some reason 
CUPS is not detecting them.

I can print to a network CUPS server with no problems.

I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be.