Re: CUPS problem

[Olaf Foellinger <ergo@merlin.in-berlin.de>]

* David Grill Watson <dgwatson@kent.edu> [22.02.01 16:48]wrote:

> I am having a very odd problem with CUPS under sid. It works fine on two 
> computers, but on another (with the same version of CUPS, installed at the 
> same time, and with nothing particularly odd about the system config) I can 
> only use the IPP backend.
> 
> When I try to add a printer from the web interface, I'm not even given the 
> option of using anything besides the IPP backend (which is listed twice) or a 
> disk file. As you can guess, this makes setting up a local printer more than 
> a bit difficult.
> 
> I've tried dpkg --purge on all the CUPS packages, deleting all of the config 
> files just to be safe (well, really just the /etc/cups directory), and 
> reinstalling all the packages multiple times, but the other backends just 
> won't show up. They are there in /usr/lib/cups/backend, but for some reason 
> CUPS is not detecting them.
> 
> I can print to a network CUPS server with no problems.
> 
> I'm really at a loss as to what the problem might be.

I did have the same problem here but didn't find a solution. Now I print
with lprng and magicfilter.

Grettings Olaf