Re: cups - Deskjet disabled since Jan 01

[ben <benfoley@rcn.com>]

On Friday 26 April 2002 09:13 am, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> Yes, here is the error I am receiving from the /var/log/cups/error.log
>
> I [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Job 5 queued on 'DeskJet' by 'root'.
> I [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops
> (PID 12944) for job 5. I [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 12945) for job 5. I [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19
> -0500] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 12946) for job
> 5. I [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Started filter
> /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertohp (PID 12947) for job 5. I
> [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel
> (PID 12948) for job 5. E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] PID 12947 stopped
> with status 1!
> E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] PID 12946 stopped with status 255!
> E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] PID 12944 stopped with status 1!
> E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19 -0500] Unable to open
> "/usr/share/cups/data/psglyphs" - Permission denied E [26/Apr/2002:11:08:19
> -0500] No pages found!
>
> Why is permission denied?
>

on my box, this is what ls -al /usr/share/cups/data/psglyphs returns:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        14956 Jan 19 23:58 

apart from the install date, yours should look much the same. if not, maybe 
you need to reinstall cups.

i've never run a print job as root, using cups. have you tried printing as a 
user?

ben


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