Re: cups yet again
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 18:52:56 +0100, graham wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 17:02:07 +0100, graham wrote:
I have a standard printer with a reliable driver (Brother HL5040). It was
working using the parallel port on my old PC. Said PC died, replaced it
with a new one, installed 64bit lenny. Configured cups for printer, all
appears ok (ie. ppd file ok, printer status recognized etc). On printing
anything at all (including the test page) all I get is what appears to be
misinterpreted postscript. One line of gibberish per page, followed by a
page feed.
Post your /etc/cups/printers.conf please. (Watch out, this file can
<snip>
That looks pretty OK to me. There are a few things to check now (post
the results here):
- What are the permissions of /dev/lp0? ("ls -l /dev/lp0") Most likely
they will be correct since you are allowed to access the printer, but
it cannot hurt to check.
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 2007-08-06 21:39 /dev/lp0
Also, are you a member of the lp and lpadmin groups?
I was in lp, not lpadmin. Added myself to lpadmin; no change
- Is the printer reported correctly if you run
/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel
?
No:
graham@dogmatix:~$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel
direct parallel:/dev/lp0 "Unknown" "LPT #1"
- Has the ppd file been copied to /etc/cups/ppd/HL-5040.ppd?
Yes
The owner should be cupsys, group lp and the permissions should be 0644.
The owner was root.root. Changed this to cupsys.lp and the test page
printed ok from the CUPS frontend (tested this once only, since I
assumed it was now ok).
However, printing from anything else still gave the same result as
before. Tried rebooting (a la windows); the test page no longer prints
from the CUPS frontend - the original problem returned.
Suspecting the permissions (everything else in the directory was also
root.root or root.lp), I did
chown -R cupsys.lp /etc/cups
but the problem stayed unchanged
Current state:
graham@dogmatix:~$ ls -al /etc/cups/ppd
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 cupsys lp 4096 2007-08-06 16:08 .
drwxr-sr-t 5 cupsys lp 4096 2007-08-06 16:08 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 cupsys lp 12517 2007-08-06 16:08 HL-5040.ppd
You can
check if the file corresponds to the correct driver with:
grep '^*NickName:' /etc/cups/ppd/HL-5040.ppd
Yes thats fine.
*NickName: "Brother HL-5040 Foomatic/hl1250 (recommended)"
- The foomatic-filters-ppds package has four different ppd files for the
Brother HL-5040. Did you try them all?
No, but I don't believe that's the issue. This one has always worked
fine for me before (several different systesm, none of which is
unfortunately available for comparison).
Thanks for the help
Graham
There is a presumably unrelated second problem: I can send the test page
from the server on port 631 ok (though it doesn't actually print
correctly), but if I send it from the gnome printer admin applet, the job
immediately appears as 'stopped' and I am unable to do anything further
till I have removed it.
I don't know the Gnome printing utilities, so I cannot help here. In any
case, we first need to get the test page working when triggered from the
CUPS frontend.
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