Bizarre CUPS printing behavior.

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 21:19:16 UTC 2005


On 8/2/05, akonstam at trinity.edu <akonstam at trinity.edu> wrote:
> I am having a problem so bizarre that in my mind that I don't where to
> search for the answer. Maybe someone has an idea.
> 
> As of last night I had a cups print server that could print to all of
> our printers and also support printing to the printers from a print
> client.
> 
> All of the printers were configured through the web interface. Late
> this morning  I looked at the list of printers using the cups web
> interface and found the following:
> 1. All the printer displays said configuration of the printer should
> be done with system-config-printer.
> 2. The configuration had been changed on the server so that all of the
> drivers to these HP printers had been changed to Raw Driver. For the Postscript
> printers postscript files could be printed but text not. Yesterday
> text, postscript and pdf files could be printed.
> 3. For each printer displayed on the server the description field had
> been erased and replaced with the statement that that the entry was
> configured by redhat-config-printer.
> 4. No browsing is occurring nor can the client print. If you try you
> get an error : lpr: error - unable to print file:
> server-error-service-unavailable
> Which makes sense since there are no printers appearing in the CUPS
> web interface for the client.
> 
> The server is FC3 and the client is FC4. I am beginning to believe in
> computer ghosts. I have working with computers for nearly 50 years and
> have never been more frustrated.
> 
> Ideas anyone?

Disable cups-config-deamon service at the FC4 client. 

> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> telephone: (210)-999-7484
>




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