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Re: [potato] broke ps printing (still)



On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 03:40:19AM +0000, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> On Sat, 1999-11-20 at 17:31:37 -0800, Ron Farrer wrote:
> > Hello all;
> > 
> > I upgraded to gs-aladdin from gs as one person suggested, but I still
> > can't print ps. Basically nothing happens, lpq shows:
> > 
> > Printer: lp@mustang  'Epson Stylus Color Pro'
> >  Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> >  Status: job 'rbf@mustang+847' removed at 17:31:15.040
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Are you using lprng?
> If so, it maintains a log file in /var/spool/lpd/lp.
> Check and see if it has a JABRT (whatever that is) error message.
> When I switched to potato I encountered both your problem and that error.
> Deinstalling lprng and installing lpr cured both.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 

Well I use lprng and gs and it works fine.  Had to get the old
gs-5.10-1.deb recently, as gs was going bezerk (gv something.ps returned a
whole bunch of library errors).

I don't know if this is exactly related, but I did notice the same
symptoms as the original poster.  Downgrading gs helped.
 
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