Re: CUPS problem

Vaughn Treude wrote:

>Hello folks:
>
>I'm trying to get CUPS printing working on a Mandrake 8 system. I'm
>attempting to print to an HP deskjet on a Windows 98 system. For some
>reason, I can't seem to get it configured right. Mandrake's GUI control
>center has a bug that allows me to add a network printer but not configure it
>(it doesn't accept any keystrokes into any of the fields.) So I tried it
>manually.
>
>Here's printers.conf:
> Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.7
># Written by cupsd on Fri Sep 24 13:47:22 2004
><DefaultPrinter HP>
>Location
>DeviceURI smb://pamela:<password>@pamela/HP
>State Idle
>Accepting Yes
>JobSheets none none
></Printer>
><Printer lp>
>Location
>DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
>State Idle
>Accepting Yes
>JobSheets none none
></Printer>
>
>(I had a local printer option because I had a printer there that failed;
>perhaps I should remove the entry.)
>And here's the Security Options section of cupsd.conf:
><Location />
>Order Deny,Allow
>Deny From All
>Allow From 127.0.0.1
>Allow From 192.168.1.*
>Allow From 192.168.0.*
></Location>
>
>Looks like it should work. The cups error_log file shows that it does indeed
>TRY to print somesting, but that the backend fails with Status 2 (whatever
>that is.) One of the puzzlers is the mention of the file foomatic-rip, which
>does not exist on my system. Why didn't that get installed with cups? Was
>HP supposed to supply that? Or is it supposed to be set to some other filter
>file. In the /usr/lib/cups/filter directory, there is a file called
>hpgltops, maybe that's the one the system should be using. Here's the
>error_log output:
>
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filter =
>"/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip"
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[1] = 8, 11
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700]
>start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip", bfff7430, bfff28e0, 9, 11,
>7)
>I [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Started filter
>/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 28566) for job 18.
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb"
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[0] = -1, 9
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb",
>bfff7430, bfff28e0, 8, 9, 7)
>I [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (PID
>28567) for job 18.
>E [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PID 28566 stopped with status 2!
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Page = 612x792; 18,36 to 594,783
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] pw = 576.0, pl = 747.0
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageTop = 783.0, PageBottom = 36.0
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such
>file or directory
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] pw = 576.0, pl = 747.0
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageTop = 783.0, PageBottom = 36.0
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] CloseClient() 4
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] UpdateJob: job
>18, file 0 is complete.
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] CancelJob: id = 18
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StopJob: id = 18
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StopJob: printer state is 3
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:45 -0700] NFO: Parallel port busy; will retry in 30
>seconds...
>D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:45 -0700] mallinfo: arena = 1841504, used = 1205088,
>free = 636416
>
>Note that after it gives up on the samba printer it tries to print to the
>parallel port - there's no printer there, so I'm not surprised that it's busy.
>
>Any suggestions?
>Thanks!
>Vaughn
>
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From the output above it looks like it is trying to print to the
parallel port but it cannot gain exclusive access to it?
Foomatic refers to a set of printer drivers that can be plugged into cups.
To use my color laser printer with Linux I had to install the foomatic
drivers for it.
It's been a while since I've used Mandrake, but I seem to remember there
was something called printerdrake that I used to set up the printer.

Is the HP deskjet connected to the win98 machine or your linux machine?

Here are some links that might help:
http://www.contribs.org/contribs/rvandenaker/beta/e-smith-cups/documentation/howtos/foomatic-ppds.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/news@mandrakesoft.com/msg00225.html
http://cups.sourceforge.net/cups-drivers.html

JD


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