Re: Printing stopped working on Debian testing

["Joshua McGee" <joshua@mcgees.org>]

On 7/3/06, Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:
> Joshua McGee wrote:
> > Printing stopped working overnight on Debian testing,
> [ ... ]
> >
> >
> >
> May be a result of an upgrade. There is a bug report at
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351668
>
> Check that eg lp0 exists in /dev. If not
>
>         # modprobe lp
>
> If this works, add lp to /etc/modules to ensure it is loaded at next reboot.
>
> Hth,
> Chris.

Paul Mills:
> Changes list indicates a number of configuration changes. In my case,
> the easiest thing to do was to purge cupsys, then reinstall. Then all
> was OK.

Thanks, I was able to get it to work by following Chris' advice, then
purging cupsys, reinstalling, then reinstalling printconf, which found
my printer.  I can now print to the queue created by printconf.

- Josh
http://www.mcgees.org