Re: cups problem, no response from cups
On Wednesday, 2 March 2022 11:06:09 EST Dan Ritter wrote:
> gene heskett wrote:
> > 1. The default non-driver for my Brother MFC-J6920DW goes thru the
> > motions of being deleted after sudo'ing, but the deletion is then
> > causing a cups restart, and that apparently restores this
> > non-functional configuration, making 3 configs. And the no-driver
> > version cannot be deleted.
> >
> > I have 2 other brother driver profiles using brothers driver that do
> > work, but in addition to that one I also have a b&w laser, which also
> > shows up twice in the printers list, but:
> >
> > 2. none of these profiles remember the choices made for how its
> > supposed to handle the instant job, you have to go through the whole
> > menu of options for every job you send to hard copy.
> >
> > Telling it to do all jobs sent to that profile in duplex, landscape,
> > and long edge binding in the profile doesn't work, but has to be
> > done in the printer requester (kde5?), per job. All this worked
> > perfectly in stretch, using TDE, not KDE and I'd save a whole forest
> > if I could restore that function in bullseye.
>
> This set of symptoms suggests to me that cups has an ownership
> or permissions problem in the directory that it is trying to
> save settings.
>
> Can you show us
>
> ls -al /etc/cups
>
> and
>
> ps auwx|grep cups
>
> please?
>
> .
root@coyote:~# ls -al /etc/cups
total 116
drwxr-xr-x 5 root lp 4096 Mar 2 13:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 126 root root 12288 Mar 2 05:41 ..
-rw------- 1 root lp 111 Feb 23 16:52 classes.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 111 Feb 23 16:50 classes.conf.O
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30432 Feb 23 17:08 cups-browsed.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 4680 Mar 2 07:27 cupsd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6456 Feb 19 12:43 cupsd.conf.O
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3047 May 27 2021 cups-files.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 27 2021 interfaces
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 4096 Mar 2 07:34 ppd
-rw------- 1 root lp 2327 Mar 2 07:35 printers.conf
-rw------- 1 root lp 2327 Mar 2 07:34 printers.conf.O
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240 Feb 19 12:43 raw.convs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 211 Feb 19 12:43 raw.types
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142 May 27 2021 snmp.conf
drwx------ 2 root lp 4096 May 27 2021 ssl
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 1093 Mar 2 13:29 subscriptions.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root lp 1093 Mar 2 12:30 subscriptions.conf.O
root@coyote:~# ps auwx|grep cups
root 9129 0.0 0.0 101652 12368 ? Ssl 07:30 0:00 /usr/
sbin/cupsd -l
lp 9132 0.0 0.0 16320 6704 ? S 07:30 0:00 /usr/
lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://
lp 9133 0.0 0.0 16320 6584 ? S 07:30 0:00 /usr/
lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://
root 9134 0.0 0.0 175840 12608 ? Ssl 07:30 0:00 /usr/
sbin/cups-browsed
lp 9143 0.0 0.0 16320 6648 ? S 07:30 0:00 /usr/
lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://
root 22596 0.0 0.0 6180 716 pts/3 S+ 13:58 0:00 grep
cups
Thank you. And I have not found how to turn off line wrap in kmail in
kde5. It was in the composer tool bar in the old tde version.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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