Alan E. Davis wrote: > CUPS has been working flawlessly for quite some time, one of the feats > of newer GNU/Linux installs (to one who couldn't get an HP mainstream > inkjet working right some 10 years ago). Simultaneously, I notices > that Apple now owns the copyright, and after a recent upgrade, stopped > working. > > I have to blame myself, because running cfg-update, the changes to > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf were considerable, involving three, and not two > files to be merged. The interface of xxdiff is not intuitive, to me: > I've blundered through it's kludgey structure for a while, but this > time I was genuinely confused. Furthermore, I made the mistake of > taking a stab in the dark. > > So I uninstalled CUPS completely, and reinstalled. Then installed the > printer again. It is doing the same thing: the interface at > localhost:631 says that the printer is ready to print. Any job sent > to the queue, including test prints, are immediately "stopped". > Reprint a job, and it is immediately stopped. > > Hypotheses: > New ASUS M2N-E Motherboard (was working before upgrading CUPS) > Configuration file issues. (I have deleted the entire directory > /etc/cups, and the new derault file was replaced with a simplified one > scavenged of a mailing list, but with no improvement. > Unknown factors (where to start?) > > So I am turning to the mailing list for suggestions. > > Any ideas? > > Thank you, > > Alan Davis > >
I ran into something similar to the a while back and I had to un-merge cups, delete the config files, then reemerge cups and reconfigure my printer. Keep in mind that when you unmerge something, the config files remain in /etc unchanged. This may not help your situation but I hope it does. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
