Re: CUPS (Sid) not printing. (SOLVED?)

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

David Baron wrote:
> On Monday 17 July 2006 15:17, David Baron wrote:
> > On Monday 17 July 2006 05:04, Katipo wrote:
> > > David Baron wrote:
> > > > Jobs get queued and simply stay that way?
> > > >
> > > > What's happening?
> > > >
> > > > Using latest 2.6.17 kernel, Sid
> > > Happened to me too.
> > > Reinstalling foomatic modules fixed it.
> > Did that, does not help.
> >
> > Some more info:
> >
> > NO lp module was installed. Easy enough to modprobe it. DIdn't help
> >
> > The parallel port /dev/lp0 was listed with attributes c-------------.
> > Set rw for owner (root) and group (lp) as in all the (unused) /dev/lp1,
> > etc. Didn't help.
> >
> > Maybe need to reboot? Kernel bug?
>
> I went into http://localhost:631/ and "started" the printer.
>
> I never had to do this before so how to I make this happen automatically?

If you put

lp

in /etc/modules

and reboot, is /dev/lp0 created with the correct permissions?

If so, does CUPS then start-up and make the printer available without 
manual intervention?

I had to add lp to /etc/modules sometime after a 2.6.16.x upgrade.

Arthur.