Re: CUPS errors
Fixed it by upgrading to testing (CUPS 1.1.15). (in case anyone has
same problem).
see new thread for new problems!
matt
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:54:37PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> after some misguided, uninformed apt-getting I broke my CUPS system
> and couldn't figure out what was wrong. So I decided to remove all
> CCUPS packages (cupsys, cupsys-client, and a couple of tohers) as well
> as the foomatic packages, reinstall them, and try again.
>
> Now CUPS is reinstalled, but I'm having a terrible time getting my
> printer reinstalled. Here's the situation:
>
> even though I ran apt-get remove --purge, when I reinstalled CUPS my
> old printer ocnfiguration files were still there. So to try and get
> rtd of htem, I erased /etc/cupsys/printers.conf. This was not
> sufficient; cups still seems to think that my old printers are there,
> andwhen I try to removethem I get
> "ckient-error-gone" in the web interface (I can't find these errors
> in the error log, or I'd give you a afuller reading from the log)
>
> SAo I figured I'd just try to add a new pritner description. When I
> do this, I get
> "client-error-not-authorized".
>
> I tried fiddng around with the authorizations in cupsd.ocnf, but this
> hasn't helped yet.
>
> I should add that I had some trouble setting my printer up when I first
> installed it (I have a Lexmark z53 on USB), but I kept careful notes
> about how to fix the problem (after someone helped me out on this
> list!) and have followed them scrupulously.
>
> Can anyone help me? I can't find a description of these
> "client-errors" anywhere inth e CUPS docs!
>
> thanks,
>
> matt
>
>
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