[SOLVED (pretty much)]; was, Re: printer setup

Don Montgomery Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:44:52 -0700

This is a belated follow-up to my amd64 Samsung printertrouble postings. After pursuing every avenue suggestedon this list, and doing some reinstalls, and looking athow Knoppix successfully recognized the printer, I finallygave up for a while.

I came back to the problem a couple of days ago, and resetthe server config file to default. I then tried to set upthe printer. Although the printer was recognized by name,it would not do more than warm up and sit idle. Thistime, though, I noticed two other entries in the printerlist, a Canon and an Epson (don't ask, I do not have suchprinters, and I have no idea how they got there). Justfor fun, I made the Epson the default. Lo and behold, theSamsung is operating just fine. Go figure.

Thanks for all the suggestions, and also for a truly finedistribution. The machine is a pleasure to use.


Don

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Don Montgomery wrote:

Gudjon, Matt, Len,

Thanks for the feedback, I have made real progress up to now.

I commented out everything in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to do with authentication,and that trouble is gone.

On http://127.0.0.1:631 I reset the port to lpt1. Now I can send a normaltest page to the printer, and it warms up. Still no test page output,though.

I used dpkg-configure cupsys, and the only option that seems relevant isbackend. Parallel seems right, for lpt1.

Another possible problem dealt with is that initial setup seems to have foundthe same printer over at its former host, so I commented out that line in/etc/lpoptions.


Thanks, Don

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:51:27 -0500
From: Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Don Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: printer setup

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-Jobsipp://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