Problems Printing

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr]

On 03/05/13 04:29, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Tuesday, March 05, 2013 a las 04:22:46AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr escribió:
>
>> The lpr error message is now gone, but no printing activity is going on. ):
>
> Try first printing a simple text file or even stdin from the cmd line,
> like:
>
> $ date | lpr -Pfoo
>
> if this works, check the CUPS log files what the problem might be when
> you print from your whatever graphical tool.
>
> 	matthias
>
# date | lpr -Pfoo
lpr: The printer or class does not exist.
/var/log/cups/# less error_log
X [05/Mar/2013:05:45:41 -0600] kevent() returned Bad file descriptor
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Brother/BR5070DN_GPL.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp830c.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp850c.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp880c.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp9100.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp920c.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp950c.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp960s.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp980c.ppd.gz!
W [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in 
/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/KONICA_MINOLTA/KOC451JX.ppd.gz!
E [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information 
file "/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Kyocera/ReadMe.htm"!
E [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] [cups-driverd] Bad driver information 
file 
"/usr/local/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt"!

not sure why its using Kyocera when I told cups the printer is a Pixma 
MP210 (using the gutenprint driver).
  /var/log/cups/# less access_log
localhost - root [05/Mar/2013:05:45:48 -0600] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 
200 168 CUPS-Delete-Printer successful-ok

(I decided to delete the printer and reinstall it)

localhost - - [05/Mar/2013:05:45:55 -0600] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 401 112 
CUPS-Get-Devices successful-ok
localhost - root [05/Mar/2013:05:45:55 -0600] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 1586 
CUPS-Get-Devices -
localhost - root [05/Mar/2013:05:45:57 -0600] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 
4558380 CUPS-Get-PPDs -
localhost - - [05/Mar/2013:05:47:18 -0600] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 401 
393 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok
localhost - root [05/Mar/2013:05:47:18 -0600] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1" 
200 393 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer successful-ok
localhost - - [05/Mar/2013:05:47:24 -0600] "POST /printers/foo HTTP/1.1" 
200 172 Create-Job client-error-not-found
localhost - - [05/Mar/2013:05:47:36 -0600] "POST /printers/foo HTTP/1.1" 
200 172 Create-Job client-error-not-found

Also, to Mike:
On 03/05/13 05:39, Mike Clarke wrote:> On Tuesday 05 Mar 2013 09:57:30 
Matthias Apitz wrote:
 >
 >> Looks like you have FreeBSD's lpr(1) in front of CUPS' lpr(1) in
 >> /usr/local/bin/lpr in your PATH; just do as root:
 >>
 >> # chmod 0000 /usr/bin/lpr
 >
 > And for full CUPS functionality you should do the same for /usr/bin/lp,
 > /usr/bin/lpq and /usr/bin/lprm
 >

I did that before deleting and re-adding the printer.
-- 
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Joseph A Nagy Jr
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