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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer not working after world update
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:06:55
Message-Id: 201010141845.37531.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Printer not working after world update by Vincent Launchbury
1 On Thursday 14 October 2010 14:15:12 Vincent Launchbury wrote:
2 > Hi list,
3 >
4 > I've been using my printer problem free for years, but a recent world
5 > update seems to have broken something. Now whenever I print I get:
6 >
7 > (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 1!
8 > [Job 129] Job stopped due to filter errors.
9 >
10 > and the job eventually vanishes from the queue. I've tried reinstalling
11 > (and later downgrading) foomatic-filters, ghostscript-gpl, and cups.
12 > I've also tried deleting and re-adding the printer, restarting cups,
13 > restarting the printer.. etc, and nothing seems to be helping.
14 >
15 > The foomatic-rip script says the return code 1 means "printer error
16 > occured", but my printer's error light isn't flashing.
17 >
18 > Also, revdep-rebuild shows nothing, and I do read ewarns. Hopefully I
19 > haven't missed something obvious. Any ideas?
20 >
21 > Thanks,
22 > Vincent.
23 >
24 > Current versions:
25 > foomatic-filters-3.0.20080507
26 > ghostscript-gpl-8.71-r1
27 > cups-1.3.11-r2
28 > Printer:
29 > PagePro 1350W (simple ps-compat, using ppd from openprinting.org)
30
31 Have you tried unmasking and using cups-1.4.4-r2 ?
32
33 I came up to some problems as described in a previous thread and some nice
34 people in this list suggested to use a later version, which fixed some (but
35 not all) of my problems.
36
37 Regards,
38 Mick

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