Printer went away (FC2)
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 22 06:01:53 UTC 2006
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 00:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>That is set in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, you can set that at whatever
>>>might be useable, and restart the cups server to get more verbose
>>>logging in /var/log/cups/error_log. Yes, thats an underscore.
>>
>>Thanks! Now I've got *lots* of stuff to contemplate!
>
>
> Who knows Mike, it might even be educational. I use that technique from
> time to time to figure out why something that should work, gets me a
> terminal error message. And from that, deduce the fix about 25% of the
> time. The rest of the time I've found the cups list fairly helpfull.
Well, I know what is missing, I think. But I'm not sure what to do
about it. Here's the interesting part of the error_log...
I [21/Feb/2006:23:27:24 -0600] Started backend
/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 10154) for job 493.
D [21/Feb/2006:23:27:24 -0600] ProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=0
D [21/Feb/2006:23:27:24 -0600] AcceptClient() 9 from localhost:631.
D [21/Feb/2006:23:27:24 -0600] [Job 493]
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such file or directory
E [21/Feb/2006:23:27:24 -0600] PID 10153 stopped with status 22!
So, foomatic-rip is gone somehow. There's a man page for that,
so it's apparently an installed program as part of cups.
I don't have it on my backups, so I dunno where to go from here...
Wait!
# locate foomatic-rip
/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
/usr/share/man/man1/foomatic-rip.1.gz
/usr/bin/foomatic-rip
/home/jmccarty/downloads/drivers/hpijs-2.1.4/foomatic-rip
I wonder if hpijs-2.1.4 could be uninstalled and reinstalled,
or just that file copied, and it would work?
Well, I just did
# make install
From /home/jmccarty/downloads/drivers/hpijs-2.1.4/foomatic-rip
and a test page now prints. I just tried printing this e-mail,
and out it came!
Oh frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!
Thanks, Gene!
Mike
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