The Epson was sort of working (Emacs would print, Mozilla wouldn't). Then I got an old LaserWriter, got it to print a test page with the HP LaserJet 2 stp driver, but since then nothing. Here's a sample log with LogStatus set to debug. The command was "lpr profile", where profile was a random text file lurking in my home dir.
TIA, Paul D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] CloseClient() 5 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] CloseClient() 5 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] ReadClient() 5 POST /printers/LW HTTP/1.1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] print_job: auto-typing file... D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] print_job: request file type is text/plain. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'paul' D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'paul' I [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] Adding start banner page "none" to job 50. I [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] Adding end banner page "none" to job 50. I [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] Job 50 queued on 'LW' by 'paul'. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] Job 50 hold_until = 0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob(50, 0x808b7e8) D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob() id = 50, file = 0/1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] job-sheets=none,none D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] banner_page = 0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: argv = "LW","50","paul","profile","1","","/var/spool/cups/d00050-001" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[0]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[1]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[2]="USER=root" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[3]="CHARSET=iso-8859-1" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[4]="LANG=en" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[5]="TZ=US/Pacific" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[6]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/LW.ppd" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[7]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[8]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[9]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[10]="CONTENT_TYPE=text/plain" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[11]="DEVICE_URI=parallel:/dev/lp0" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[12]="PRINTER=LW" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[13]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: envp[14]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: statusfds = [ 7 8 ] D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 9 -1 ] D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 10 11 ] D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops", 0xbffefdd0, 0xbffef140, 9, 11, 8) I [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 3118) for job 50. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 9 12 ] D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops", 0xbffefdd0, 0xbffef140, 10, 12, 8) I [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 3119) for job 50. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 10 11 ] D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic", 0xbffefdd0, 0xbffef140, 9, 11, 8) I [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic (PID 3120) for job 50. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ -1 9 ] D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel", 0xbffefdd0, 0xbffef140, 10, 9, 8) I [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 3121) for job 50. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] Page = 612x792; 9,40 to 603,766 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->num_fonts = 35 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[0] = AvantGarde-Book D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[1] = AvantGarde-BookOblique D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[2] = AvantGarde-Demi D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[3] = AvantGarde-DemiOblique D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[4] = Bookman-Demi D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[5] = Bookman-DemiItalic D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[6] = Bookman-Light D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[7] = Bookman-LightItalic D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[8] = Courier D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[9] = Courier-Bold D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->num_fonts = 35 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[0] = AvantGarde-Book D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[1] = AvantGarde-BookOblique D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[2] = AvantGarde-Demi D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[3] = AvantGarde-DemiOblique D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[4] = Bookman-Demi D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[5] = Bookman-DemiItalic D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[6] = Bookman-Light D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[7] = Bookman-LightItalic D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] ppd->fonts[8] = Courier D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] Page = 612x792; 9,40 to 603,766 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] slowcollate=0, slowduplex=0, sloworder=0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%Creator: texttops/CUPS v1.1.19 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%CreationDate: Fri Jun 27 14:50:00 2003 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%Title: profile D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%For: paul D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%Pages: (atend) D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Courier-Bold D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%+ font Courier D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%DocumentSuppliedResources: procset texttops 1.1 0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%+ font Courier-Bold D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%+ font Courier D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%EndComments D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%BeginProlog D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%BeginResource: font Courier-Bold D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%CreationDate: Wed Dec 22 1999 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] perl: warning: Setting locale failed. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] LANGUAGE = (unset), D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] LC_ALL = (unset), D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] LANG = "en" D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] are supported and installed on your system. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] [Job 50] perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:00 -0700] CloseClient() 5 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%EndResource D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%BeginResource: font Courier D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%CreationDate: Wed Dec 22 1999 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%EndResource D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%BeginResource: procset texttops 1.1 0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%EndResource D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%EndProlog D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%Page: 1 1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%Page: 1 1 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] pw = 594.8, pl = 726.9 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] PageLeft = 8.6, PageRight = 603.4 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] PageTop = 766.5, PageBottom = 39.6 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%Page: 2 2 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] pw = 594.8, pl = 726.9 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] PageLeft = 8.6, PageRight = 603.4 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] PageTop = 766.5, PageBottom = 39.6 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] 0 %%Trailer D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] Saw Trailer! D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] Saw EOF! E [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] PID 3120 stopped with status 3! D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] [Job 50] Error closing renderer D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] UpdateJob: job 50, file 0 is complete. D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] CancelJob: id = 50 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] StopJob: id = 50, force = 0 D [27/Jun/2003:14:50:01 -0700] StopJob: printer state is 3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]