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Re: printer setup



On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 12:12:43PM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I have been migrating an i386 system to a debian testing 
> amd64 workstation.  Debian testing netinstall of 1/4/7 
> installed perfectly (mobo: MSI-K8T Master2-FAR; two 
> opterons).  I then set up a KDE desktop, migrated /home, 
> set up all the apps I need for my essential tasks.  Thank 
> you all very much for your excellent work.
> 
> At this point, I disconnected the printer (Samsung 
> ML-1430, fully supported by foomatic/gdi, according to 
> linuxprinting.org) from the i386 box, and reconnected it 
> to the new amd64 box.  I attempted to configure the 
> printer through the KDE kprinter application.  I 
> eventually got to the point that I could send a print job 
> from gv, the printer would go through the warming up 
> cycle, and then sit idle.  The failed printjob did not 
> show up where I could see it.  lpq shows nothing, lpr does 
> not work.
> 
> My best guess as to my miss-step is that I accepted 
> encyption and authentication in the kprinter setup as 
> defaults, and muddled the choices involved.  I expect that 
> I compounded my errors by subsequently using apt-get to 
> try to remove cups and install lprng, and later to undo 
> those actions.  I understand that cups is preferred.
> 
> Below are the last 50 lines of /var/log/cups/error_log.
> 
> I need to be able to print textfiles and postscript from 
> the commandline, and to print from within windowed apps as 
> well.  I wonder if there is a way to re-run 
> debian-installer for nothing but the printer installation? 
> I would like to have a clean slate for printer 
> installation, without undoing the work I have done on the 
> rest of the system.  Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> 
> I apologize if this is the wrong list for this issue.
> 
> Don
> 
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 8 status_code=0 
> (successful-ok)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 8 GET /printers/samsung.ppd 
> HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] write_file: 8 file=9
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost:631/printers/samsung
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 
> (successful-ok)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:54 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] CUPS-Get-Printers
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 
> (successful-ok)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /classes/ HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] CUPS-Get-Classes
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 
> (successful-ok)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] CUPS-Get-Default
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] CUPS-Get-Default client-error-not-found: No 
> default printer
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=406 
> (client-error-not-found)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] Get-Printer-Attributes 
> ipp://localhost:631/printers/samsung
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 
> (successful-ok)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 12
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] Get-Printer-Attributes 
> ipp://localhost/printers/samsung
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 
> (successful-ok)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 10 GET 
> /printers/samsung.ppd HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] write_file: 10 file=9
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAcceptClient: 9 from localhost (Domain)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdReadClient: 9 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data 
> provided.
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost:631/printers/samsung
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 9 status_code=0 
> (successful-ok)
> D [02/Mar/2007:19:04:56 -0600] cupsdCloseClient: 9

Why is it complaiing that you have no default printer?  The
authentication issue looks like a bigger problem though.  What is your
cupsd.conf got in it and how does it compare to your i386 machine's copy
of the file?

--
Len Sorensen



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