Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:33:18 +0100 From: Roger Olofsson <240olofsson@telia.com> To: Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com> Cc: raggen@raggens.net, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME Message-ID: <490B4F6E.8060505@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY126-W270F0551C55626D0239DD9CA200@phx.gbl> References: <BAY126-W53A132DAE794C3769D505DCA200@phx.gbl> <490B391E.3010508@telia.com> <BAY126-W270F0551C55626D0239DD9CA200@phx.gbl>
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Sean Cavanaugh skrev: >> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:58:06 +0100 >> From: 240olofsson@telia.com >> To: millenia2000@hotmail.com >> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME >> >> >> >> Sean Cavanaugh skrev: >>> I have the latest GNOME installed from ports and have the odd issue of CUPS not wanting to work with it right. >>> >>> If i access the CUPS web configuration page, i can print test pages just fine and not a single issue, but if i try and print a test page from inside GNOME, including trying with the gnome-cups-manager port, it will stop and present the following error >>> "/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster failed"this error will carry over to the web interface and those jobs are pretty much hosed, yet i can create a test print from web interface even when this error is present. >>> >>> I do notice that test pages from web interface come from user "anonymous" whereas test pages from gnome-cups-manager are from the respected user that ran it. >>> even root is unable to print from inside gnome. >>> >>> -Sean >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >>> Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.5/1757 - Release Date: 2008-10-30 14:35 >>> >> Hi Sean, >> >> I assume you have cups-pstoraster installed? It should be installed when >> installing CUPS itself. >> >> If you built Gnome from source you should have this in /etc/make.conf >> >> CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes >> NO_LPR=yes >> WITH_CUPS=yes >> >> /Roger > > > i have cups-pstoraster installed. like i said, i can get a test page to print fine from the CUPS web page, just not if it was initialized inside gnome even though i do see the print jobs sitting in the queue for the printer with status "Stopped". Restarting the jobs doesnt help them any either. > > i installed everything from ports but my make.conf file is a little bare > > UnKnown# less /etc/make.conf > # added by use.perl 2008-10-23 14:57:35 > PERL_VER=5.8.8 > PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 > > > -Sean > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.5/1757 - Release Date: 2008-10-30 14:35 > Hi again Sean, Add the lines, make reinstall and see if Gnome picks it up.. There's an excellent site at http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/ that has CUPS related information. Please let the list know if it helps! /Roger
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