On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:53:50PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I hope that someone can help me with this problem. About two weeks ago, > printing stopped working in Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, OpenOffice, and > almost every other program that I use. > > Kate (the editor) still prints, but a simple editor that I wrote, > myself, does not. I can also print a file from the command line using > 'lp filename', or 'lpr filename'. Commands such as 'ls | lp' do NOT > work, however. This caused me to think that there might be a problem > with bash and piping from one command to another, but 'ls | more' works > just fine. > > It is really annoying to have to print to a file, and then print the > file from the command line. > > BTW: I am running Sarge with the debian stock 2.4.26-1-k7 kernel and > CUPS. I am using cupsys-bsd, so that lp and lpr still work as the > programs were originally configured and this had been working for > several months untill this new problem occured.
What version of cups, cupsys-client are you using? I don't know if this is of any use, but http://bugs.debian.org/163663 sounds similar (problem with printing from stdin), although it was reportedly working with a later version of cupsys-client (that I think you would be using in Sarge). > > Since I can print with 'lpr filename' I know that the problem is not > with the printer. Since CUPS (and cupsys-bsd) seems to work fine (I can > print a test print from the CUPS admin page through either Opera, or > Firefox even though the browsers' print functions don't work, > themselves) the problem does not appear to be there, either. Also, I > don't beleive that there have been any recent updates to the CUPS packages. > > I am at a loss as to what else to check. If anyone has any ideas, or > has had this problem themselves, I would appreciate whatever help you > can provide. Does this problem exist with other users (e.g. root)? Maybe try with a different shell? Check that /usr/bin/{lp,lpr} are not changed from the cupsys-client,bsd packages? -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
