Re: print manager - cups
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Sunday 17 August 2003 7:03 pm, David Fokkema wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
> [...verbose description of print failure from gimp snipped...]
>
> > Well, you speak of at least one application which prints perfectly
> > normally. So you know there's nothing wrong with CUPS, ;-). To make
> > really sure, try sending a one-page postscript file to the printer using
> > the command-line tools lp or lpr (if you installed cupsys-bsd). If that
> > also works perfectly normally, it's the gimp. There was a thread a few
> > days ago, IIRC, dealing with gimp-print. You could probably find it in
> > the archives.
>
> Ok, good. I had to do a windoze-style reboot to get the printing to start
> again. But yes, lp somefile.ps succeeds, either as root or user.
>
> I'll look for the previous thread. But menawhile, can anyone help me with why
> I cannot alter the print queue from print manager (KDE)? I can restart the
> print server - it asks for root password. Every other operation it rejects
> "You don't have access to the requested resources". And even restarting the
> print manager after deleting the stalled prints from the queue was not enough
> to unlock it - hence the Microsoft-style reboot.
Did you try lpstat and lprm? If they also tell you that you don't have
permissions, it's a CUPS problem. If they work, but KDE does not, it's
a KDE problem, ;-)
HTH, David
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