This actually seems like more of a problem with Cups than with gnome-cups-manager. I'm experiencing similar errors when trying to add network printers. In particular, when I attempt to add a printer I see the following errors in /var/log/cups/access_log
localhost - - [12/Apr/2006:13:28:14 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 358 CUPS- Add-Printer successful-ok localhost - root [12/Apr/2006:13:28:14 -0400] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 358 CU PS-Add-Printer server-error-internal-error And the following in /var/log/cups/error_log E [12/Apr/2006:13:28:14 -0400] CUPS-Add-Printer: Unauthorized E [12/Apr/2006:13:28:14 -0400] copy_model: empty PPD file! E [12/Apr/2006:13:28:14 -0400] PID 6562 stopped with status 1! E [12/Apr/2006:13:28:14 -0400] [cups-driverd] Unable to open "/usr/share/ppd/�}̿ �}̿�}̿" - No such file or directory When I increase the debugging level within cups I see the following errors: D [12/Apr/2006:13:33:41 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 5 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [12/Apr/2006:13:33:41 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. I [12/Apr/2006:13:33:41 -0400] CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found: No destinations added. D [12/Apr/2006:13:33:41 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found) D [12/Apr/2006:13:33:42 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 6 POST / HTTP/1.1 D [12/Apr/2006:13:33:42 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided. I [12/Apr/2006:13:33:42 -0400] CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found: No destinations added. D [12/Apr/2006:13:33:42 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 6 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found) Increasing the debug level, gives me the following output while trying to install a printer: D [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: username="root" I [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] Setting PostScript-Printer device-uri to "smb://[[MY PRINTER URL - SANITIZED]]" (was "file:/dev/null".) I [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] Setting PostScript-Printer printer-is-accepting-jobs to 1 (was 0.) I [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] Setting PostScript-Printer printer-state to 3 (was 5.) D [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] copy_model: Running "cups-driverd cat foomatic-rip/Generic/Generic-PostScript_Printer-Postscript.ppd"... E [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] copy_model: empty PPD file! I [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] CUPS-Add-Printer server-error-internal-error: Unable to copy PPD file! D [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=500 (server-error-internal-error) E [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] PID 7109 stopped with status 1! E [12/Apr/2006:13:35:23 -0400] [cups-driverd] Unable to open "/usr/share/ppd/� ��� ��� ��" - No such file or directory -- Adding Printer Fails with no Dialog https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39069 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
