Re: Problems with cups printing with 2.8..

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 07:27, John Affleck wrote:
> (apologies if this is the third time you've heard me whining about
> this, but I'm getting desperate)
> 
> I just finished installing 2.8 from garnome on a much-abused redhat
> 7.1 system.  I'd done the same for 2.6 (also from garnome). 
> Everything works find, except I can't print from anything that uses
> libgnomeprint (gedit, evolution, gnumeric), all of which used to work
> fine under 2.6.  

There have been some "improvements" made to the cups system. There may
be a point in downgrading to libgnomeprint[ui] 2.6.
 
> I'm trying to print to a CUPS print server, so I
> installed libgnomecups and gnome-cups-manager, and gnome-cups-manager
> sees all of the available printers just fine.  But they don't show up
> in the print dialog box.  Nor can I select CUPS as a location (which,
> I guess isn't terribly surprising).  I can see all of the printers
> listed in /etc/printcap, but attempting to print to them produces an
> "lpr:  unable to print file:  client-error-not-found" error message
> and no output.  When I move the libgnomeprintlpd modules aside, I
> don't get any printers, other than the PDF and generic postscript
> drivers.

Apparently libgnomeprintcups doesn't see any printers. 	Can you print
from the command line?  Try:

lpr -Pprinter /etc/printcap    where you replace "printer" with one of
the printers mentioned in your /etc/printcap file.

This does sound like a problem with your printing set-up though! The
libgnomeprintlpd module simply pipes the postscript into lpr. And
vlearly lpr is being found.

Andreas

> 
> This is with libgnomeprint-2.8.0, libgnomeprintui-2.8.0,
> libgnomecups-0.1.12, gnome-cups-manager-0.25 build against CUPS
> 1.1.21.
> 
> As a final twist, I don't have, and can't get, root access to the
> machine in question, although the identical thing happens on a machine
> I do have access to.
> 
> CUPS seems to be working fine.  lpstat lists all of the printers, and
> I can lpr to my hearts content. 
> 
> Is there an easy solution to make the CUPS printers work under gnome ? 
> Did I screw something obvious up ?
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 
> 	John A.
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Andreas J. Guelzow
Taliesin Software, Shelties, Pyr Sheps
and Shetland Sheep

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