On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:31:23AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:05:35AM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
>> From: "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed
>> Gerard Robin <g.robin3@free.fr>:
>>> My printer HP Photosmart C7280 printed fine until I upgraded my sid
>>> box
>>> and now cups gives:
>>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed
>>>
>>> (the script perl /usr/lib/filter/foomatic-rip exits on my system)
>>>
>>> hp-setup (as root) gives:
>>>
>>> Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of
>>> the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based
>>> authentication failed
>>>
>>> I can't print anything now, SOS ...
>>
>> I'd worry about that Authentication Rejected bit first. Then try
>> falling back to another model name of the same type printer, an
>> earlier version. I used an Epson that way recently.
> --------------------------8<--------------------------------
>> I thank the DDs for their efforts in making this possible. I had a
>> devil of a time trying to do this in Sarge, but Etch appears far more
>> amenable to nutbars like us non-CUPS users. Great job!
>
> My problem is partialy solved:
> I have downloaded the ppd driver for my HP Photosmart C7280 at:
>
> http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PhotoSmart_C7200
>
> and I replaced the driver supplied by the debian package by this one and
> now hp-setup and hp-toolbox work fine but:
>
> I can scan a document.
> I can make a copie of a document (from the computer)
>
> I can't print a file, always I get: /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
> failed
I've had a number of occaisions where cups has just failed for me like
that with a "...foomatic-rip failed" message. On different occaisions
I've had different solutions work:
purge cups* and foomatic* and
anything else printing related I can find and start over
remove ~/.gnome (not sure why this worked, but it did once).
remove the existing printer, shutdown cups completely, restart it
and re-add the printer
other mysterious mumbo-jumbo that magically fixes printing... :(
It's a big complicated system and seems overly prone to breakage IMO.
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