On 04/16/2014 09:14 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On Tue, 15 April 2014, at 1:06 pm, Dutch Ingraham <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... >> I should have included this in my first post: "locate foomatic-rip" >> returns, on both installations: >> >> /usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip >> /usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.bz2 >> >> I cannot run foomatic-rip manually. > > This is perhaps a nitpick, but `locate` doesn't show us that foomatic-rip is > installed on your system, only that it was installed last time updatedb was > run. > > I'm not actually familiar with foomatic-rip, but I'd assume that it's an > executable of some sort. Don't you get an error message if you try running > `/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip`? What are the permissions on the > file? In another post you've stated that you have 2 other machines which are > not showing the same problem - compare with them. > > Stroller. > > > Good point, but updatedb is run after every update, so daily or thereabouts. I can execute foomatic-rip (but only with the full path - there is no separate command, which makes sense since it is not located in a /bin dir, I suppose). No errors on any of the three installs. (Note it is not really completing its job on the subject machine, as without the foo2zjs driver and accompanying firmware, I can't print. But it is responding with appropriate questions about whether my printer is configured or not.) The permission for foomatic-rip is -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root, so shouldn't be a problem - user is in the lp group anyway.
And you're correct, comparing the three is what I've been trying to do. I've re-build a few packages to make sure all cups- and foomatic-related packages have the same USE flags. Also have run all clean-up scripts, like perl-cleaner, python-updater, revdep-rebuild, etc. foo2zjs (either from source or the gentoo package) still refuses to make install. I guess I'll keep playing. Thanks for your help.
