CUPS-1.1.16 Update

Eagle-Eye · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 17

Hi,

(I have the same problem as described in article https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=18403&highlight=cups+1+1+16 but I had trouble following it in German.)

The problem is that when starting the system it hangs at the point where cupsd is started and will not continue to boot. I had to start the system with a rescue disk and then remove it from default-runlevel.

After booting the system I have tried to start the cupsd again. It responds to the start-command (init-script) but it doesn't give the command-prompt back to the user.

I have also runned into a problem while adding a printer (using the web interface) - I receive

Cthulu23 · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Posts: 8

I'm having the same problem. After updating to CUPS-1.1.16, I overwrote my config files, but this shouldn't prevent me from adding a new printer. Anyone have any ideas?

hertog · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2002 9:27 pm Post subject:

Had the same problem here (not the locking at starting cups, but the client-error-not-authorized one)

Also, older versions of cups recognized what USB printer I had hanging on the bus, this one just gives USB1 .. USB 15 printer.

I managed to get the whole lot working by installing the foomatic stuff, and read the USAGE file in there... NOTE!: foomatic is not part of Gentoo, but can be downloaded from www.linuxprinting.org

bOOyahkASHa · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

My system is hosed now because it hangs on "Starting cupsd..." (guess who didn't create a rescue disk?).

Has anyone managed to figure out what the hell is causing this? Or how to bypass that hanging daemon during bootup?

I'm really p*ssed off about this.
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ghost_o · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 119

Dont know why, but the cupsd daemon in 1.1.16 does not automatically go into the background and give control back to init. You can simply put a "&" at the end of the start line of the /etc/init.d/cupsd script, or you can turn it off from being started automatically as a temporary fix.

-G

bOOyahkASHa · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

OK...I managed to get around the hanging daemon and back into my system. Here's how I did it for all you wretched noobs who ever find yourselves in the same position.

Boot from your Gentoo 1.2 or 1.4 CD.
Follow your nose until you get to a # prompt.
Then mount your filesystem and edit your default runlevel to remove the offending daemon, like this:
# cd /mnt
# mkdir xx
# mount /dev/hda<something> xx
# cd ./xx/etc/runlevels/default
# rm cupsd <-- this will remove the guilty daemon from your default runlevel
# cd
# sync; sync
# umount /mnt/xx

Reboot.

Log in as root, fire up a shell and run
# rc-update del cupsd default <-- this will tidy up the cupsd left-overs

Still haven't got to the bottom of the hanging daemon, I'll report back with my findings.
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bOOyahkASHa · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

Thanks ghost_o.

Still haven't figured this out. It's obviously beyond my ken.

All I know is running /usr/sbin/cupsd from the command line blocks until I type CTRL-C. Whilst the command is blocking, a ps -ef | grep cups shows two cups daemons running. Every time

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sulu · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 6:55 am Post subject:

I'm also having problems with cups. The prints are simply sh***t.

@hertog:
You did it with the foomatic-stuff.
This didnt work for me either.
Adter downloading foomatic-tarball i did ./configure; make; make install
and everything looked fine so far. Configuration with port 631 also didnt report any errors.
Still, the printer output is crap. So i checked the install of foomatic and found no files in /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printers . Do you have different files for every printer in /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printers ?

Greets
Sulu

ghost_o · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 119

bOOyahkASHa · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

Yeah, I already tried that Ghost, but I end up with two cups daemons running. And I'm not sure that's how it's supposed to work

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bOOyahkASHa · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

Well, my machine seems to print OK -- test pages from CUPS admin, docs from Open Office...I guess two daemons seems to work.
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milkypostman · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 45

bOOyahkASHa · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

Thanks Milky, that --background switch works fine for me too. And yes, like you, I now have two cups daemons running as before. Oh well, CUPS seems to work anyway.

And no, there were no unactioned ._cfg* files from my recent emerge update

Shame.
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Bytal · Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2002 4:27 pm Post subject: No need for foomatic

Theres no need to use foomatic for ppd files. You can generate them online at the cups website. Also I had the error-client-not-authorized error too I had to switch to cups 1.1.14 in order to avoid it. From what I've heard on #gentoo a lot of people have been having this prob.
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Cloim · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Aug 2002 Posts: 99

Thanks, that --background thing worked for me.
On foomatic -- It is now in portage.
I hadn't needed to print anything, and had forgotten to get around to setting things up.
Then during an 'emerge -pu world', I saw that emerge wanted to install foomatic.
So I let it. Then finished setting things up, only to have my comp refuse to start the next day (today) when it made it to cups.
But problem solved. Thanks again

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