Re: cups problems
David Johnson wrote: On Friday 04 August 2006 11:47, John Nielsen wrote: You have the permissions fixed, which was half the solution for me when I made the upgrade. The other half was to abandon cups' usb back-end for the time being, since it doesn't work (as well as it used to). The workaround suggested in an earlier thread on this subject was to stop cups and manually edit the printers.conf file (in /usr/local/etc/cups), replacing the usb: portion of the printer URI with file:. This worked for me and several others, although I remember posts that it did not work for some. It works! Thank you! There is one oddity though. The printer ready light flashes as normal, but then the attention light flashes. Pressing the go button then prints out the job. According to the printer manual, this means either manual feed or continuation error. I suspect that somehow manual feed is getting sent to the printer (even though it isn't set in cups printer options). A minor annoyance, but one I can live with. I've had this problem when using /dev/ulpt instead of /dev/unlpt. Might be worth a try if you haven't yet. HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cups problems
Like millions of other users, my printing capabilities came to an abrupt end when I upgraded cups to version 1.2. After weeks of wasting time on the problem, I'm still not printing. I've seen lots of hints and tips on this list and elsewhere, but they just don't work for me. I also get the sense they're not working for lots of other people either. I have a brand new (three months) laserjet printer, and I'll be damned if I have to reboot into Windows to use it! I can downgrade to an older cups, but that's not a permanent solution. Symptoms: Nothing happens when I print a file (or print test page). I've waited up to ten minutes. When I cancel the job and start a new one, I then get the following message in the cups admin page: USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds This message stays even after unplugging printer USB port. A restart of cupsd is necessary to make it go away. OS: FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE Printer: HP LaserJet 1320, USB Using ppd file downloaded from linuxprinting.org lpstat -t output (without the port busy message): scheduler is running system default destination: laserjet device for laserjet: usb:/dev/ulpt0 laserjet accepting requests since Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 printer laserjet now printing laserjet-36. enabled since Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 laserjet-36 root 18432 Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 Relevant packages: cups-1.2.0 cups-base-1.2.0_2 cups-pstoraster-8.15 (not using hplip, should I?) dmesg: ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode Permissions on devices: crw-rw 1 root cups0, 151 Aug 4 08:43 /dev/ulpt0 crw-rw 1 root cups0, 152 Aug 4 08:43 /dev/unlpt0 All BSD printing executables have been renamed out of the way (lp.org, lpr.org, etc). The old cups.sh script no longer exists. devfs.rules was modified according to some tips found floating about online. I also note that these tips, which seems to be necessary, are not in the handbook or in any pkg_message file. Any help leading to a solution will be greatly appreciated. I would also love to see the cups ports provide sufficient (and correct) documentation to get printing to work. Thank you, -- David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups problems
On Friday 04 August 2006 14:34, David Johnson wrote: Like millions of other users, my printing capabilities came to an abrupt end when I upgraded cups to version 1.2. After weeks of wasting time on the problem, I'm still not printing. I've seen lots of hints and tips on this list and elsewhere, but they just don't work for me. I also get the sense they're not working for lots of other people either. I have a brand new (three months) laserjet printer, and I'll be damned if I have to reboot into Windows to use it! I can downgrade to an older cups, but that's not a permanent solution. Symptoms: Nothing happens when I print a file (or print test page). I've waited up to ten minutes. When I cancel the job and start a new one, I then get the following message in the cups admin page: USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds This message stays even after unplugging printer USB port. A restart of cupsd is necessary to make it go away. OS: FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE Printer: HP LaserJet 1320, USB Using ppd file downloaded from linuxprinting.org lpstat -t output (without the port busy message): scheduler is running system default destination: laserjet device for laserjet: usb:/dev/ulpt0 laserjet accepting requests since Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 printer laserjet now printing laserjet-36. enabled since Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 laserjet-36 root 18432 Fri Aug 4 11:20:53 2006 Relevant packages: cups-1.2.0 cups-base-1.2.0_2 cups-pstoraster-8.15 (not using hplip, should I?) dmesg: ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode Permissions on devices: crw-rw 1 root cups0, 151 Aug 4 08:43 /dev/ulpt0 crw-rw 1 root cups0, 152 Aug 4 08:43 /dev/unlpt0 All BSD printing executables have been renamed out of the way (lp.org, lpr.org, etc). The old cups.sh script no longer exists. devfs.rules was modified according to some tips found floating about online. I also note that these tips, which seems to be necessary, are not in the handbook or in any pkg_message file. Any help leading to a solution will be greatly appreciated. I would also love to see the cups ports provide sufficient (and correct) documentation to get printing to work. You have the permissions fixed, which was half the solution for me when I made the upgrade. The other half was to abandon cups' usb back-end for the time being, since it doesn't work (as well as it used to). The workaround suggested in an earlier thread on this subject was to stop cups and manually edit the printers.conf file (in /usr/local/etc/cups), replacing the usb: portion of the printer URI with file:. This worked for me and several others, although I remember posts that it did not work for some. HTH, JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups problems
On Friday 04 August 2006 11:47, John Nielsen wrote: You have the permissions fixed, which was half the solution for me when I made the upgrade. The other half was to abandon cups' usb back-end for the time being, since it doesn't work (as well as it used to). The workaround suggested in an earlier thread on this subject was to stop cups and manually edit the printers.conf file (in /usr/local/etc/cups), replacing the usb: portion of the printer URI with file:. This worked for me and several others, although I remember posts that it did not work for some. It works! Thank you! There is one oddity though. The printer ready light flashes as normal, but then the attention light flashes. Pressing the go button then prints out the job. According to the printer manual, this means either manual feed or continuation error. I suspect that somehow manual feed is getting sent to the printer (even though it isn't set in cups printer options). A minor annoyance, but one I can live with. -- David Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS Problems
It looks like cups accepts my root account and password, but it is just hanging when it authenticates. There is nothing suspicious in the log. This is a fresh install of CUPS with FreeBSD 6.0 I had also had synced my ports tree a couple of weeks ago, so the CUPS port should be the latest. Also, after it hangs, if I try a killall -9 cupsd, I get: killall: warning: kill -KILL 20896: No such process Did it crash? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Append: CUPS Problems
There are some errors in the CUPS log: W [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] Unknown username lp I [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] Loaded configuration file /usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf I [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host. I [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] Full reload is required. E [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] LoadDevices: Unable to open backend directory /usr/lib/cups/backend: No such file or directory I [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] LoadPPDs: Read /usr/local/etc/cups/ppds.dat, 16 PPDs... I [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... I [20/Feb/2006:09:44:19 -0800] Full reload complete. ---BeginMessage--- It looks like cups accepts my root account and password, but it is just hanging when it authenticates. There is nothing suspicious in the log. This is a fresh install of CUPS with FreeBSD 6.0 I had also had synced my ports tree a couple of weeks ago, so the CUPS port should be the latest. Also, after it hangs, if I try a killall -9 cupsd, I get: killall: warning: kill -KILL 20896: No such process Did it crash? ---End Message--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS problems
Hi! When I try to use CUPS with the browser administration (http://localhost:631), I always get the same error trying to add a printer and to print a test page. So installed the printer by using the command line as described in the CUPS docs, but I can't use it. The browser displays server-error-service-unavailable I have this problem with both FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.1. Please, can anyone help me? Thanx Davide ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS problems
Hi you can find the answer to your question on www.freebsddiray. let me look up the exact url for you. [from freebsddiray support fourm] I found this on the CUPS.general newsgroup (http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?s1+gcups.general+v4): create the /var/spool/cups folder make sure to create the /var/spool/cups/tmp folder as well.. make sure the lp and sys users have write access http://www.freebsddiary.org/phorum/read.php?f=1i=8537t=8532#reply_8537 hope this helps you out. Rob On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! When I try to use CUPS with the browser administration (http://localhost:631), I Please, can anyone help me? Thanx ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS problems
At 06:41 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:36:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:26 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: I cvsup'd main ports this weekend, and now my CUPS printing is broken :-( Looking in the logfiles it appears that it's not finding somehting called EPS Ghostscript. What is this, and how do I fix the problem? Well, I don't know how you had CUPS set up, or what you are running - usually ghostscript-gnu-7.05_3 (the current port) should do the trick. I would use portupgrade and cvsup/ That seems to be the easiest way. :)) HTH, PJ Thanks. Unfortunately, that's excalty what I did. In breif cvsup ports and main, make world, portsupgrade. I'm looking around, and it appears that there are now 4 cups related ports. cups, cibs-base, cups-lpr, and cups-prtoraster. The description files in these ports leave me confused. Can you tell me jhow they fit together? I'm no great expert at this. I had to muddle through all the instructions and research google , etc., myself. Anyway, you probably don't have too much of a problem if you reread all the manuals and installation instructions: the ghostscript-gnu-7.05_3 is necessary for cups to work correctly on *nix systems. The gimp-print program provides most of the drivers. In my case that is the Epson Stylus color 900. There are other drivers available usually from the manufacturers of the printer. My installation includes the following: cups-1.1.18.0_4 - this is the metaport - installs the whole kit kaboodle for cups (not gimp or ghost) cups-base-1.1.18.0_4 cups-lpr-1.1.18.0_4 - this is for BSD compatibility binaries - the lp* commands cups-pstoraster-7.05.5_2 Since *nix printing is mainly for PostScript, this is the interpreter to print to non-PostScript printers ghostscript-gnu-7.05_3 - This is the PostScript GNU interpreter, necessary for Cups to function - This is a special version for *nix printing - check the EPS website (I think that's their initials gimp-print-4.2.4 - These are the printer drivers As for the rest, you have to set up the configuration which is really not hard if you follow all the instructions. It took me a while because I was really unfamiliar with all that. I'm sorry I can't help much more than that as I am really limited for time. You could always post to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, I found them very helpful. Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe. HTH PJ -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
CUPS problems
I cvsup'd main ports this weekend, and now my CUPS printing is broken :-( Looking in the logfiles it appears that it's not finding somehting called EPS Ghostscript. What is this, and how do I fix the problem? Printing is _important_. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: CUPS problems
At 03:26 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: I cvsup'd main ports this weekend, and now my CUPS printing is broken :-( Looking in the logfiles it appears that it's not finding somehting called EPS Ghostscript. What is this, and how do I fix the problem? Well, I don't know how you had CUPS set up, or what you are running - usually ghostscript-gnu-7.05_3 (the current port) should do the trick. I would use portupgrade and cvsup/ That seems to be the easiest way. :)) HTH, PJ Printing is _important_. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
