[nylug-talk] Arms, planes, and CUPS

[Michael B Allen]

What does running lpq as root on the server tell you?

Do you have a Windows machine you can plug the printer into temporarily
just to make sure it hasn't died?

Is your disk full?

Perhaps you should try the cups mailing list?

Mike

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:43:52 -0500 (EST)
Seth Rothenberg <seth at pachai.net> wrote:

> Thanks to one person who commented privately,
> but it has not resolved the problem.
> 
> > CUPS has an ownership problem. Ownership of passwd.md5 file - (root or
> > lp) - will determine [access or permission denial] Cups working.
> > Commenting or uncommenting 'user' in cupsd.conf will cause some features
> > to work or not work on Cups restart. Check the passwd.md5 file
> > permissions for each scenario.
> 
> I tried UNcommenting these lines, and just got errors
> for permissions on the cache.
> 
> I did not see a file named passwd.md5
> 
> I did do apt-get update and upgrade for all the cups components.
> interesting, it said it was upgrading things, but
> the dpkg -l before and after have not changed
> 
> root at kx:~# cat cupslist2 | cut -c-78
> ii  cups-pdf                         2.4.2-3                            PDF pr
> ii  cupsconfig-knoppix               0.5-9                              Minima
> ii  cupsys                           1.2.7-4                            Common
> ii  cupsys-bsd                       1.2.7-4                            Common
> ii  cupsys-client                    1.2.7-4                            Common
> ii  cupsys-common                    1.2.7-4                            Common
> ii  cupsys-driver-gutenprint         5.0.0-3                            printe
> ii  libcupsimage2                    1.2.7-4                            Common
> ii  libcupsys2                       1.2.7-4                            Common
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
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