Common cups-1.2.x problems and solutions

JuddRogers · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 32 Location: Austin, Texas

I used the Web UI to modify the printer. Used all the same choices, saved, now the printer works.

I suspect there was an incompatible change to the printer config file.

There seem to be other problems as well so this might only be a partial solution.

Judd

thagenesis · n00b Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 36 Location: Germany

These steps fixed the problem here. But I only needed to do this for my USB printer. The network printer continued to work like charm after the update.

Additionally I needed to copy the new cups.conf.default to cups.conf to fix the Webinterface. (Showed me 404, wgen trying to access https://localhost:631)
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sonicbhoc · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject:

I don't think those have anything to do with this, as neither options worked <_<

This was never upgraded from cups 1.1, it was a fresh install of cups 1.2, and this is what I get when I try to print to my samba printer. Not very pretty is it?

sogood007 · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 4

After upgrade cups, my usb printer didn't work. I finally tried modify the printer and with different URI for the usb print. The URI was something like usb:/dev/usb/lp0. The new one was usb://Canon/S750. Basically, I find the URI through the pulldown menu. It comes up different URI.

sonicbhoc · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject:

my uri is:

smb://newpc/HPBI1200

I think the issue is that I saw every printer twice in the device list. So I'm uninstalling everything printer related and reinstalling it now.

EDIT: It's working on my laptop.

Voltago · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject:

For some reason I cannot see yet, sometimes the symlink

sonicbhoc · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:26 am Post subject:

That did it! I removed /etc/cups and unmerged all printing related packages except for ghostscript, and reinstalled it all. My printer was automatically picked up by both my laptop and desktop, and they both printed the test page without complaints. Finally!

olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

Hi all,

When I try to add printers through my KDE Control Center (KDE 3.5.5, the problem started happening after cups updated it's self to 1.2.x) I am getting the following error:

Unable to create printer. Error message received from manager: client-error-bad-request

Anyone who knows howto fix this?

EDIT: Changed title from "KDE refuses to add printers after cups upgrade" & made sticky. --pjp

Voltago · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

kdeprint in conjunction with cups-1.2.x doesn't like empty /etc/cups/printers.conf files. Do you already have printers configured? If not, use this printers.conf file, add your printer and remove the other one:

olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

Voltago · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject:

I can confirm your problem, it seems to be a known kde bug, some problem in the kdeprint ipp implementation:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115891
(the empty printers.conf problem is also discussed here).
As a workaround, go to PrintManager->Configure Manager->CUPS Server and set 'Host' to 'localhost' and 'Port' to '631'.

Olger, please change the thread title to 'Common cups-1.2.x problems and solutions' and I will ask the mods to make it sticky.

roblov

Hi. I've performed a deep Gentoo upgrade recently and after that, i can't print anymore. The error log shows this:

(Quote of the command tail -10 /var/log/cups/error_log with info level set to debug)

Voltago · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject:

roblov · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:27 pm Post subject:

Voltago · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

The 'Port' option should only have a port specified, not host+port. Change that to

quag7 · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject:

In my case, I'm now getting a 404 for the web interface. I've re-emerged it, ran the command in the ebuild message to rebuild symlinks or whatever it was...and now, I have no ability to print at all or even access the web console to see why it is failing - other than, it appears, all of the web stuff has gone deepspace.

roblov · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject:

roblov · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject:

Voltago · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:59 pm Post subject:

Have you removed

quag7 · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:30 am Post subject:

Unmerging, deleting /etc/cups, and then emerging cups again fixed the 404 problem for me.

Got the printer PPD recognized in the printer configuration by repeatedly power-cycling my printer. Now the test page prints huge; I get about a third of it on a page...Trying to figure that one out.
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roblov · emerge -C cups emerge -1a =cups-1.1.23-r8

I've chosen to downgrade cups to version 1.1.23-r8. I've uninstalled the newest version and installed the previous version doing this:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20097

Thanks Voltago. I did a quick search, and there may be other threads. If you're interested, it may be helpful to see if any can be consolidated into this one (or this one into another if there is a better one).
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roblov · I'm printing again using cups-1.1.23-r8.

I'm printing again using cups-1.1.23-r8.

kthagen · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 6

I had similar problems to others as the result of upgrading cups to 1.2. First, I downgraded to cups 1.1.23-r8. That got things working for others on my local network connecting through samba. But I still couldn't print locally. Setting my LogLevel to debug showed me that jobs were stopping with the following error: