Upgraded to woody and printing from KDE stopped

[Gruetzner <jgruetzner3@comcast.net>]

  I did a search to see if others have had this problem, but didn't find 
any.  My apologies if I didn't use the right keywords.  I've tried to use 
the printing HOWTO, but seem to be going in circles when reading it.  

   I recently upgraded from potato to woody.  I did not upgrade the kernel 
(2.2.19).  My desktop is KDE. 

    After upgrading, I could no longer get my printer to work.  (It worked 
under potato:  I've a Brother HL-1240, and used the laserjet driver.)   I 
have since installed lprng and deleted lpr, and can now print an ascii 
file from the command line (e.g.,   lpr  testfile.txt).   I 

    However, when I try to print from a KDE app or from WordPerfect or 
from acrobat, I get the following type of message window popping up:

--------------------
/usr/bin/lpr -P 'lp|bhl1240|Brother HL-1240' '-#1'
/home/family/.kde/tmp-family/kdeprint_s5dkMry: execution failed with
message:

Status Information:  sending job 'family@localhost+433' to
lp"bhl1240|Brother HL-1240@localhost connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
connected to 'localhost' requesting printer lp|bhl1240|Brother
HL-1240@localhost job 'family @localhost+433' transfer to
lp|bhl1240|Brother HL-1240@lcoalhost failed error "NONZERO RFC1179
ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL' sending str
'^Blp|bhl1240|Brother-1240' to lp|bhl1240@localhost
error msg: 'bad command line'
---------------

   I'm at a loss.  I'm pretty ignorant of printing arcana, but something 
must need configuring that isn't.  

    Oh, I've tried it with the environmental variable $PRINTER set to "lp" 
and to just nothing:  same results.   I've also tried...
   # lpc enable all
...with no change.    

   When I run lpq, it tells me that the last job that lp@localhost printed 
was the  lpr testfile.txt, and that Filter_status: lp is ready and 
printing.   (It's lying.)   (What's this "@localhost bit?)

   Running lsmod shows that lp is apparently loaded.   I didn't see 
anything that made sense to me in the /var/logs--but I may not know what 
to look for!  
  
    If you can help, I'd appreciate it, either on-list or direct.   My 
wife and eldest daughter are both bugging me to get the ability to print 
back!

     Thanks!

   James
James K. Gruetzner
<jgruetzner3@comcsast.net>


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