Re: cups installation: Unable to read configuration file '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:07:12PM +0100, iks_kzm wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> > You have not mentioned anything about installing drivers for your
> > printer. You probably need to install one of these packages:
>
> I have HP Laserjet 1200 series.
>
> > 1) cupsys-driver-gimpprint,
> > 2) foomatic-bin and foomatic-db, or
> > 3) cupsomatic-ppd.
> I have installed 1, 2 and 3.
>
> But I just copied from the CD (which I obtained with the printer)
> the original HP_Laserjet_1200.ppd
> to /usr/share/cups/model/HP/, restarted cups and then connected to
> http://localhost:631 and add new printer choosing the
> HP_Laserjet_1200 series model.
Is the version of HP_Laserjet_1200.ppd the same as other ppd's that
come with the cupsys package?
>
> I noticed the following:
> the files /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and printers.conf can be read and executed
> ONLY by root. I changed the mode (using chmod) so any user
> can read the files but nothing changed: the described above printing
> problem remained the same. When I did '/etc/init.d/./cupsys restart'
> the two files again can be read and executed ONLY by root.
>
> I use debian 3.0 (woody)
I'm running the testing version of CUPS. I'm not sure what all the changes
are between woody and testing. On my computer ownership and permission
of files in /etc/cups are:
# ls -l /etc/cups
total 160
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Oct 16 21:46 certs -> /var/spool/cups/certs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2183 Feb 9 2002 client.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1215 Jun 6 2002 command.types
-rw------- 1 lp sys 19728 Aug 20 2002 cupsd.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 9 2002 interfaces
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2798 Aug 20 2002 mime.convs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5659 Aug 20 2002 mime.types
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 Aug 3 2002 ppd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94464 Oct 16 21:46 ppds.dat
-rw------- 1 lp sys 279 Oct 5 19:51 printers.conf
-rw------- 1 lp sys 279 Aug 8 2002 printers.conf.O
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 947 Aug 7 2002 pstoraster.convs
Try running debsums against the cupsys packages to check the integrity
of the installation.
Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, change "LogLevel info" to "LogLevel
debug" and then restart cups. This should generate more message in the
error log and may give you better idea of what the problem is.
> > Do you have libcupsys2 and gs-esp installed?
>
> I installed libcupsys2 but I cannot figure out whether I have gs-esp.
> What gs-esp is? Using search in dselect I cannot find it.
Wrong guess on my part. gs-esp is version of ghostscript from Easy
Software Products (ESP). It is available in debian testing and
unstable; you should not need it with woody.
--
Jerome
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