On 5/1/23 16:00, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:I'd think I could start by comparing cupsd.conf's, but miss And I can't see the trees for all this forest in the way in both, but missing is a client.conf. I think... But that is probably whats wrong, me thinking.Your directory listings showed that both had a ppd directory, but you didn't show the content of those directories. Since your error message was specifically that it couldn't find the PPD, the first thing I'd do is compare those two directories.
The ppd dirs are empty.And if a copy/paste from this machine, hosting the printers fixes it on the other bullseye machines so these printers are available to whomever wants to use them, like geany or okular etc, can we create a cups bug entry? Perms on those empty ppd dirs are:
gene@bpi54:~$ ls -l /etc/cups total 80 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 Apr 8 20:07 client.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30456 Apr 14 03:14 cups-browsed.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6486 Apr 30 05:09 cupsd.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3047 May 23 2022 cups-files.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 23 2022 interfaces drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 4096 May 23 2022 ppd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 Oct 15 2022 raw.convs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211 Oct 15 2022 raw.types -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 May 23 2022 snmp.conf drwx------ 2 root lp 4096 May 23 2022 ssl -rw-r----- 1 root lp 93 Feb 6 23:41 subscriptions.conf -rw-r----- 1 root lp 335 Feb 6 23:35 subscriptions.conf.O gene@bpi54:~$ ls -l /etc/cups/ppd total 0So it looks to me like cups, to add a printer, needs to be either root, ask a sudo pw, or be a member of group lp.
But group lp is bereft of any other members with "lp:x:7:" as its one and only member, but cups on these machines has yet to ask me for a pw. This looks like it could be part of the original show stopper problem?
Or, am I overthinking this again? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>