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Hi, Dale. |
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 09:57:23AM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hi, Gentoo. |
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> > My printer used to work. According to CUPS, its last succesful print |
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> > was in February. (Incidentally, I used to have an up-to-date system, but |
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> > that went when I screwed it up after Gentoo made Gnome-3 stable and I |
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> > tried to switch out of Gnome. My last emerge --sync was around the same |
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> > time.) |
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> > When I tried to print a *.pdf from evince, I got an error message saying |
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> > /path/to/foomatic-rip didn't exist. (Sorry, I can't reproduce the exact |
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> > error message any more). It would seem there has been a change from |
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> > foomatic filters to cups-filters (which I have installed) at some stage. |
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> > But I don't recall this change, and I can't find any docs about how to |
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> > configure printing to use cups-filters. When I go through the "Modify |
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> > printer" sequence in http://localhost:631, and try to change the filter, |
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> > I just get presented with a long list of foomatic filters. |
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> > I've been at this stage for some while now, dreading the impending hours |
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> > and hours of web searching. Any tips people can give me to cut this |
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> > miserable process short will be most warmly received. |
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> > By the way, what has happened to the helpful documentation which used to |
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> > be at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en? Most of it seems to have |
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> > disappeared. There used to be a helpful doc on setting up a printer, |
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> > but that has gone. (I'm lucky enough to be able to read the German |
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> > translations, which (largely, at least) still exist, but they're |
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> > somewhat out of date). |
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> When I run into this issue, I delete the printer and add it back. For |
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> some reason, that has always fixed my issues. It seems that when CUPS |
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> gets upgraded, it needs the printers reconfigured from scratch. |
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> Hope that helps. |
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Well it did, and it didn't. I deleted then added the printer as you |
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suggested. Nothing. But somehow, that brought me to consider the error |
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message I reported above. So I emerged foomatic-filters (which, somehow, |
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I'd removed in February), and now printing works, at least for files.pdf. |
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So, thanks for the email, it brought me back to sanity. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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