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I'm rebuilding a broken gentoo, taken down by hard drive failure. |
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Most things are working well, but printing just won't go. |
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Attpempts to print are accepted, but not printed. lpstat -t shows the |
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attached printer is disabled. Re-enabling only works until the next job |
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is submitted. It has reported a variety of reasons, such as "Page not |
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Found" (whatever that means). |
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Or some thing about back end failure. Or no reason stated at all. |
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I've got my old config files, so I was prepared for things to Just Work. |
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They don't. |
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I do not have my old world file, so I may be missing a piece. |
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I've installed cups and hplip. I cannot follow the Gentoo printing guide, |
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because that worthy |
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document requires me to add hplip to the default runlevel, but hplip does |
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not put anything in |
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/etc/init.d. My printer is an old HP Laserjet 4M, which I usually run as a |
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Postscrpt printer. |
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What have I missed? |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |