* Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net> [2006-06-11 18:34]: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > * Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net> [2006-06-11 13:16]: > > > Just to pass this titillating piece of info along if the earlier > > > posts aren't enough... I have submitted a bug report. The notes > > > that I took for its contents follow. If anyone has some thought on > > > what to try, I'd love to hear from you. > > > > > > I need my printers... :( > > > > > <...> > > > > Have you tried purging all CUPS packages and reconfiguring all > > printers? That worked for me. > > Yes and yes. No change. Includes reboots in between. What I don't > know is whether there is another package outside of the "regular" > cupsys ones which may be leaving traces of something about, messing up > the purge. Basically, I hit all the cups\* listed as installed. > > It is also weird that CUPS identifies my usb printer (the Epson) with > /dev/lp0, which is a parallel port. That is rather odd indeed. > I'm wondering whether there is some problem with udev or the like. > There is no /dev/usb directory, unlike the information below suggests. > Is this because of the existence of the /udev/.static directory??? > > Again, my system sees the printers properly (via hwinfo) Something I just thought of: you could install cups-pdf and see whether you can print to PDF files. That way you'd be able to find out if CUPS works at all. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <flx@obfusk.net> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et:
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