On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:23:10PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday 17 August 2003 7:03 pm, David Fokkema wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...verbose description of print failure from gimp snipped...] > > > Well, you speak of at least one application which prints perfectly > > normally. So you know there's nothing wrong with CUPS, ;-). To make > > really sure, try sending a one-page postscript file to the printer using > > the command-line tools lp or lpr (if you installed cupsys-bsd). If that > > also works perfectly normally, it's the gimp. There was a thread a few > > days ago, IIRC, dealing with gimp-print. You could probably find it in > > the archives. > > Ok, good. I had to do a windoze-style reboot to get the printing to start > again. But yes, lp somefile.ps succeeds, either as root or user. > > I'll look for the previous thread. But menawhile, can anyone help me with why > I cannot alter the print queue from print manager (KDE)? I can restart the > print server - it asks for root password. Every other operation it rejects > "You don't have access to the requested resources". And even restarting the > print manager after deleting the stalled prints from the queue was not enough > to unlock it - hence the Microsoft-style reboot.
Did you try lpstat and lprm? If they also tell you that you don't have permissions, it's a CUPS problem. If they work, but KDE does not, it's a KDE problem, ;-) HTH, David -- Happy Birthday, Debian! August 16, 1993 http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/4959/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
