Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newly emerged cups 1.2.1-r2 won't print, won't talk to admin tools

[Kevin O'Gorman]

This looks like a helpful reply.  Too bad I'm so clueless.  I seem to
keep finding that there's more homework to do about gentoo, and
I never seem to have the time.  So I'm in continual crisis mode.

Details (questions) below:

On 7/7/06, Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 July 2006 00:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Yesterday, I emerged cups 1.2.1-r2.  Now I cannot print at all.
> >
> > I use KDE, and the configuration tools cannot make a connection.
> > Even bare-bones init stuff doesn't work right:
> > /etc/init.d/cupsd stop
> > says it stopped the server, but
> > /etc/init.d/cupsd start
> >   WARNING: "cupsd" has already been started
> >
> > but 'ps' show that it has NOT been started.
> >
> > lpstat -t
> > shows confusing info about my printer:
> >
> >
> > treat init.d # lpstat -t
> > scheduler is running
> > system default destination: lp0
> > device for lp0: parallel:/dev/lp0
> > device for lp0: /dev/null
> > lp0 not accepting requests since Fri Jul  7 14:23:34 2006 -
> >         Paused
> > lp0 accepting requests since Fri Jul  7 14:15:50 2006
> > printer lp0 disabled since Fri Jul  7 14:23:34 2006 -
> >         Paused
> > printer lp0 is idle.  enabled since Fri Jul  7 14:15:50 2006
> > lp0-2458                root             14336   Fri Jul  7 14:21:24
> > 2006 lp0-2459                root             14336   Fri Jul  7
> > 14:55:25 2006 treat init.d #
> >
> > SO: is it enabled or not?
> Really strange, it seem a cupsd process is responding some way
>
> Is it there something listenting on port 631?

I have no idea.  I want it to listen on 515 which is the printer
spooler port that
WinXP has been using up until now.

>
> cribrum ~ # /etc/init.d/cupsd stop
>  * Stopping cupsd ...
> [ ok ]
> cribrum ~ # lpstat -t
> lpstat: Unable to connect to server
>
> > I guess I'll submit a bug, but I'd like to know if it's best to go
> > back to cups-1.1.23-r7,
> > which I had before, and for which I have a binary package.
> Side notes:
> 1) I had to generate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt
> and /etc/cups/ssl/server.key by hand to connect via https web
> interface.

I don't know anything about that.  Up until now, I've been doing my admin
either from the command line, or with the minimal KDE tools.  Someone
would have to point me at docs for creating such a key and how to
use it.

>
> 2) did you follow ewarn hints?

Where would I find ewarn hints?  I know emerge winds up saying some things
on the console that scroll off too fast to read.  I always thought that was so
verbose that I'd never have time to look through a normal capture
file.  Is there
someplace where the good stuff is distilled?

> [...]
>  *
>  * The configuration changed with cups-1.2, you may want to save the old
>  * one and start from scratch:
>  * # mv /etc/cups /etc/cups.orig; emerge -va1 cups
>  *
>  * You need to rebuild kdelibs for kdeprinter to work with cups-1.2

I can certainly try that.

>  *
>  * /usr/lib/cups exists - You need to remerge every ebuild that
>  * installed into /usr/lib/cups and /etc/cups, qfile is in
> portage-utils:
>  * # FEATURES=-collision-protect emerge -va1
> $(qfile -qC /usr/lib/cups /etc/cups | sed "s:net-print/cups$::")
>  *

Is that one thought or two?  Anyway, I need to ask:
1) how do I tell what has "installed into /usr/lib/cups and /etc/cups"
2) What's this qfile thingy?

> [...]
>
> ciao
>         Francesco
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