On Saturday 08 July 2006 00:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2. Now I cannot print at all. > > I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection. > Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right: > /etc/init.d/cupsd stop > says it stopped the server, but > /etc/init.d/cupsd start > WARNING: "cupsd" has already been started > > but 'ps' show that it has NOT been started. > > lpstat -t > shows confusing info about my printer: > > > treat init.d # lpstat -t > scheduler is running > system default destination: lp0 > device for lp0: parallel:/dev/lp0 > device for lp0: /dev/null > lp0 not accepting requests since Fri Jul 7 14:23:34 2006 - > Paused > lp0 accepting requests since Fri Jul 7 14:15:50 2006 > printer lp0 disabled since Fri Jul 7 14:23:34 2006 - > Paused > printer lp0 is idle. enabled since Fri Jul 7 14:15:50 2006 > lp0-2458 root 14336 Fri Jul 7 14:21:24 > 2006 lp0-2459 root 14336 Fri Jul 7 > 14:55:25 2006 treat init.d # > > SO: is it enabled or not? Really strange, it seem a cupsd process is responding some way
Is it there something listenting on port 631? cribrum ~ # /etc/init.d/cupsd stop * Stopping cupsd ... [ ok ] cribrum ~ # lpstat -t lpstat: Unable to connect to server > I guess I'll submit a bug, but I'd like to know if it's best to go > back to cups-1.1.23-r7, > which I had before, and for which I have a binary package. Side notes: 1) I had to generate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt and /etc/cups/ssl/server.key by hand to connect via https web interface. 2) did you follow ewarn hints? [...] * * The configuration changed with cups-1.2, you may want to save the old * one and start from scratch: * # mv /etc/cups /etc/cups.orig; emerge -va1 cups * * You need to rebuild kdelibs for kdeprinter to work with cups-1.2 * * /usr/lib/cups exists - You need to remerge every ebuild that * installed into /usr/lib/cups and /etc/cups, qfile is in portage-utils: * # FEATURES=-collision-protect emerge -va1 $(qfile -qC /usr/lib/cups /etc/cups | sed "s:net-print/cups$::") * [...] ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.17-gentoo-r1, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Mon Jul 3 22:29:51 CEST 2006 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4410.66 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list