Bug#712719: cups: CUPS printing broken in Wheezy (Unable to get printer status)

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

Hello Tony,

Thank you for the error_log; it is very useful.


On Fri 21 Feb 2014 at 15:04:04 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:

> I am having the same problem as Oriol Mula-Valls,

I doubt it. :), Please see

   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736942 ,

where Oriol's issue was resolved.

> tho in my case the host in question is a freshly installed
> squeeze host and the remote machine is a CentOS box

Are you sure the host is running Squeeze? From the error_log

   D [21/Feb/2014:14:48:48 -0800] [CGI] envp[11] = "SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.5.3"

This indicates a Wheezy version of cups.

[Snip]

> The result is that the job hangs in the queue,
> and visiting http://localhost:631/printers/PU-ipp
> shows "Unable to get printer status."

A possible ipp backend problem.

> I'm attaching the error_log.
> 
> This occurs when the /etc/cups/printers.conf is
> configured for the remote printer to have a
> DeviceURI in the form
> 
>   ipp://printserver-ip/printers/printername

Please try

    ipp14://printserver-ip/printers/printername