Bug#373720: kdeprint can't connect to a freshly installed and running CUPS 1.2 server
Package: kdeprint
Version: 4:3.5.3-2
Severity: important
Hello,
after I found CUPS non working again - problems started with the update
to version 1.2 - I decided to create a clean-room environment by
purging CUPS, removing all leftovers and re-installing and
re-configuring it from scratch. This time it wouldn't print anything
(see last tried with kdeprint in debugn bug #335483). The jobs have
been queed nicely but then it just didn't print, no messages in
error_log despite LogLevel debug. I can't tell more about this,
cause I of my clean-room approach to get things working as quickly
as possible.
This time I used the web interface of CUPS itself to configure the
printer, cause I read about problems with kdeprint in another debian bug
report (see debian bug 345973). Since CUPS didn't recognize the PPD
files from cupsys-driver-gutenprint, I manually choosed and uploaded
the right one to the CUPS server on localhost.
/usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.0/en/stp-escp2-600.5.0.ppd.gz
Now I was able to print the test page and it even worked okay. Thus I
wanted to test with kdeprint, too... It said "Initializing manager" and
then gave the following error:
"Liste der Drucker lässt sich nicht übertragen. Fehlermeldung des
Verwaltungsprogramms:
Verbindung zu CUPS-Server fehlgeschlagen. Überprüfen Sie, ob der
CUPS-Server korrekt installiert wurde und aktiv ist. Fehler: Rechner ist
nicht auffindbar."
Roughly translated:
"List of printers could not be transferred. Error of the manager
program:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Please check whether it has been
installed correctly and is active. Error: Host not found."
It showed that error message while CUPS on localhost was happily
printing another testpage. The loopback interfaces is available,
"localhost" as well as its other name "deepdance" can be pinged.
After sending this report I will restart KDE and see whether the problem
goes away. This has been the case on my last try with kdeprint. Still I
report this now, cause for a novice user this behavior just is extremely
irritating.
Actually it seems that CUPS is listening just fine:
root@deepdance:~ -> netstat -tulpen | grep cups
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 0 2208530 5725/cupsd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:*
0 2208532 5725/cupsd
This is the contents of kdeprintrc:
martin@deepdance:~/.kde/share/config -> cat kdeprintrc
[$Version]
update_info=kdeprintrc.upd:kde-3.1-toolbar
[General]
PrintSystem=cups
[Jobs]
Size=903,305
I didn't modify the cups configuration files manually, and since
I purged them before, they should be distribution standard.
This is the printer configuration:
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.2.1
# Written by cupsd on 2006-06-15 11:06
<Printer EpsonStylusColor600>
Info Epson Stylus Color 600
DeviceURI epson:/dev/lp0
State Idle
StateTime 1150362311
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
This is the CUPS version installed:
ii cupsys 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX
ii cupsys-bsd 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX
ii cupsys-client 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX
ii cupsys-driver-gutenprin 4.3.99+cvs20060521-4 printer driv
ii libcupsys2 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX
ii libcupsys2-dev 1.2.1-2 Common UNIX
This all is with an Epson Stylus Color 600 connected to the port
replicator for my ThinkPad T23 via parallel interface (the printer
doesn't have USB).
Regards,
Martin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.7-tp23-sws2-2.2
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages kdeprint depends on:
ii enscript 1.6.4-9 Converts ASCII text to Postscript,
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.3-1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-4 GCC support library
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii poster 1:19990428-8 Create large posters out of PostSc
ii psutils 1.17-22 A collection of PostScript documen
Versions of packages kdeprint recommends:
ii evince [postscript-viewe 0.4.0-1 Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii gnome-gv [postscript-vie 1:2.12.0-1 GNOME PostScript viewer
ii gs-esp [postscript-viewe 8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii gs-gpl [postscript-viewe 8.50-1.1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii kghostview [postscript-v 4:3.5.3-1 PostScript viewer for KDE
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