Re: update on printing problem

[Zach <netrek@gmail.com>]

On Jan 1, 4:50 pm, Ken Irving <fn...@uaf.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 08:07:55AM -0500, Zach Uram wrote:
> > I have exhausted every solution I could find :( As a last resort I
> > tried running lpadmin to set the printer manually and I get that
> > stupid ambiguous error message again, same one I got in the cups web
> > interface. Does anyone know what this error message means and how  I
> > can get my printer (HP Deskjet 960C hooked up to parallel port) setup
> > using lpadmin:
>
> > zu22@hal9000:~$ sudo lpadmin -h localhost -p HP -D printer -u
> > allow:zu22 -P /rofs/usr/share/cups/model/hpijs/HP/HP-DeskJet_960C-hpijs.ppd
> > lpadmin: Request Entity Too Large
>
> I haven't been following this thread, but just to toss out a few
> random thoughts...
>
> Googling that error message seems to indicate it's from the web server;
> adding CUPS to the google query gives some possible hints, e.g.,
>
>     ... CUPS - Request Entity Too Large. If you get this CUPS error,
>     it may mean that you don't have write permission to your CUPS spool
>     directory ...
>
> If you add your user to the lpadmin group it won't take effect until
> you log in again.
>
> In some cases running commands under sudo is not sufficient to give
> root privileges to some of the arguments.  I don't know why that is,
> but suppose it's a matter of how/when the command line is parsed.
> In such cases it might work to become root and remove all doubt.
>
> Here's a look at my cups spool on a working system:
>
>     ken@denali:~$ sudo ls -ld /var /var/spool /var/spool/cups /var/spool/cups/tmp
>     drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2008-08-27 13:03 /var
>     drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4096 2008-12-05 14:36 /var/spool
>     drwx--x---  3 root lp   4096 2008-12-29 15:42 /var/spool/cups
>     drwxrwx--T  2 root lp   4096 2008-08-29 14:12 /var/spool/cups/tmp

Hi Ken,

Here is the output on mine:

drwxr-xr-x 10 root   root 160 2009-01-01 02:35 /var
drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root  80 2009-01-01 02:30 /var/spool
drwx--x---  5 cupsys lp    60 2008-12-31 18:09 /var/spool/cups
drwxrwx--T  4 cupsys lp    40 2006-05-17 08:46 /var/spool/cups/tmp

Before I ran the lpadmin program I ran "groups" and verified my normal
user was in the lpadmin group.
I also tried running lpadmin as root and same error occurs.

Zach