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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb printer disappears on cups upgrade
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 01:23:29
Message-Id: 5201A176.8090000@iinet.net.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: usb printer disappears on cups upgrade by walt
1 On 07/08/13 07:48, walt wrote:
2 > On 08/04/2013 09:37 PM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
3 >> Am 03.08.2013 04:23, schrieb William Kenworthy:
4 >>
5 >>> Using cups <=1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to 1.6.2-r* and cups cant
6 >>> see the usb printer. The only errors in the cups log are to do with
7 >>> systemd service files which I masked a couple of days ago - the usb
8 >>> problem was happening before though.
9 >> I have exactly the same issue with my Epson Stylus SX218 printer
10 >> connected via USB.
11 >>
12 >> I tried everything to get it to print with cups 1.6 but no success. At
13 >> the moment to print I start a Windows VM (Windows inside the VM sees and
14 >> installs the printer without problem) and connect to the shared printer
15 >> with cups.
16 > I've had some strange problems occasionally when I upgrade cups, and often
17 > the problems have been fixed by deleting/reinstalling the printers using
18 > the cups html interface (on localhost:631).
19 >
20 same here, but in this case it cant see the usb printer to recreate it
21 ... will be a week until I get back to this one ...
22
23 BillK