Re: cups blowed up again, when do we get a print system that Just Works?

[songbird]

gene heskett wrote:
...
> Thanks.

  when someone ignores common sense after frequently 
shooting themself in the foot there's not much more
i can do for them.

  i suggest a system management approach which involves
snapshots (use git on the whole thing if you have to
or some partition image copier or something).

  when you have a working setup, get that snapshot so
you can always fall back to it.  the other important 
part is being able to get to a reliably repeatable
state from a cold boot.

  always keep those working setups backed up.

  otherwise you are just wasting your time (repeatedly
it seems to me).


  songbird

Re: cups blowed up again, when do we get a print system that Just Works?

[gene heskett]

On 8/24/23 13:00, gene heskett wrote:
ping

Greeting all;
bookworm, upto date, cups 2.4.2 installed.

I goto print a doc on a 3d printer control card, and can't print a pdf 
from firefox.


So I goto localhost:631, no printers! I had 4 the day before yesterday, 
and used 2 of them.


So I goto add printers, get asked for my passwd, and then all of them 
show up but can't do a test page, no response, so I reconfigure the big 
one for lowwr tray, duplex on duplex copy paper.  Print a test page, 
works, so I configure this same printer a second time for foto paper 
from tray 1, print test page works to expen$ive paper, go back to first 
and resend another test page to see if it still draws paper from tray 2, 
it does.


So since I'm on a roll. configure the b&w duplex laser printer, send a 
test page, works. 2 copies of that printer so I send a test to it. 
doesn't respond so I delete it. Go back to firefox, select print the 27 
page pdf I'm looking at, no response. Goto journalctl and see it say:

==
Aug 24 12:55:29 coyote firefox-esr[141594]: g_object_ref: assertion 
'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Aug 24 12:55:35 coyote plasmashell[2495]: libkcups: 
Get-Printer-Attributes last error: 0 successful-ok
Aug 24 12:55:35 coyote plasmashell[2495]: libkcups: 3 
"Brother_MFC_J6920DW_duplex_lowertray_coyote"
Aug 24 12:55:42 coyote kwin_x11[2453]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB 
error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 10153, resource id: 90188401, major 
code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0

===

I even added myself to the lp user in /etc/group, still no response.

Where do I look next?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.


Cheers, Gene Heskett.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
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cups blowed up again, when do we get a print system that Just Works?

[gene heskett]

Greeting all;
bookworm, upto date, cups 2.4.2 installed.

I goto print a doc on a 3d printer control card, and can't print a pdf 
from firefox.


So I goto localhost:631, no printers! I had 4 the day before yesterday, 
and used 2 of them.


So I goto add printers, get asked for my passwd, and then all of them 
show up but can't do a test page, no response, so I reconfigure the big 
one for lowwr tray, duplex on duplex copy paper.  Print a test page, 
works, so I configure this same printer a second time for foto paper 
from tray 1, print test page works to expen$ive paper, go back to first 
and resend another test page to see if it still draws paper from tray 2, 
it does.


So since I'm on a roll. configure the b&w duplex laser printer, send a 
test page, works. 2 copies of that printer so I send a test to it. 
doesn't respond so I delete it. Go back to firefox, select print the 27 
page pdf I'm looking at, no response. Goto journalctl and see it say:

==
Aug 24 12:55:29 coyote firefox-esr[141594]: g_object_ref: assertion 
'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Aug 24 12:55:35 coyote plasmashell[2495]: libkcups: 
Get-Printer-Attributes last error: 0 successful-ok
Aug 24 12:55:35 coyote plasmashell[2495]: libkcups: 3 
"Brother_MFC_J6920DW_duplex_lowertray_coyote"
Aug 24 12:55:42 coyote kwin_x11[2453]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB 
error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 10153, resource id: 90188401, major 
code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0

===

I even added myself to the lp user in /etc/group, still no response.

Where do I look next?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
 - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page