On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:12:43PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: > > Hello list, > > I have been migrating an i386 system to a debian testing > amd64 workstation. Debian testing netinstall of 1/4/7 > installed perfectly (mobo: MSI-K8T Master2-FAR; two > opterons). I then set up a KDE desktop, migrated /home, > set up all the apps I need for my essential tasks. Thank > you all very much for your excellent work. > > At this point, I disconnected the printer (Samsung > ML-1430, fully supported by foomatic/gdi, according to > linuxprinting.org) from the i386 box, and reconnected it > to the new amd64 box. I attempted to configure the > printer through the KDE kprinter application. I > eventually got to the point that I could send a print job > from gv, the printer would go through the warming up > cycle, and then sit idle. The failed printjob did not > show up where I could see it. lpq shows nothing, lpr does > not work. > > My best guess as to my miss-step is that I accepted > encyption and authentication in the kprinter setup as > defaults, and muddled the choices involved. I expect that > I compounded my errors by subsequently using apt-get to > try to remove cups and install lprng, and later to undo > those actions. I understand that cups is preferred. > > Below are the last 50 lines of /var/log/cups/error_log. > > I need to be able to print textfiles and postscript from > the commandline, and to print from within windowed apps as > well. I wonder if there is a way to re-run > debian-installer for nothing but the printer installation? > I would like to have a clean slate for printer > installation, without undoing the work I have done on the > rest of the system. Thanks in advance for any ideas. > > I apologize if this is the wrong list for this issue. > > Don > > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 > (successful-ok) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 8 GET /printers/samsung.ppd > HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] write_file: 8 file=9 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost:631/printers/samsung > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 > (successful-ok) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] CUPS-Get-Printers > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 > (successful-ok) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /classes/ HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] CUPS-Get-Classes > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 > (successful-ok) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] CUPS-Get-Default > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: No > default printer > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 > (client-error-not-found) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] Get-Printer-Attributes > ipp://localhost:631/printers/samsung > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 > (successful-ok) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 12 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] Get-Printer-Attributes > ipp://localhost/printers/samsung > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 > (successful-ok) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 10 GET > /printers/samsung.ppd HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] write_file: 10 file=9 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1 > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data > provided. > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost:631/printers/samsung > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 > (successful-ok) > D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9
Why is it complaiing that you have no default printer? The authentication issue looks like a bigger problem though. What is your cupsd.conf got in it and how does it compare to your i386 machine's copy of the file? -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]