From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 01:04:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8771065670 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:04:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jwbacon@tds.net) Received: from outbound3.mail.tds.net (outbound3.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A408A8FC17 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:04:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jwbacon@tds.net) Received: from outaamta02.mail.tds.net (outaamta02.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.32]) by outbound3.mail.tds.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m2504aCa012615; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:04:36 -0600 Received: from sculpin.tds.net ([69.131.20.28]) by outaamta02.mail.tds.net with ESMTP id <20080305000431.MCBE21514.outaamta02.mail.tds.net@sculpin.tds.net>; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:04:31 -0600 Message-ID: <47CDE38E.6030103@tds.net> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:04:30 -0600 From: Jason Bacon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Johnson References: <200803040000.m24005Tw090583@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/121338: Unable to create the Foomatic driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:04:49 -0000 Michael Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Michael Johnson > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Mark Linimon > wrote: > > The following reply was made to PR ports/121338; it has been > noted by GNATS. > > From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark > Linimon) > To: Jason Bacon > > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > > Subject: Re: ports/121338: Unable to create the Foomatic driver > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:58:26 -0600 > > > Is this a problem in gutenprint or in cups? > > > I'm not sure as I don't have the printer he is using, but I imagine > it's gutenprint (assuming cups is set up correctly). > Cups seems to be fine. As I mentioned, the printer worked (but too slowly) with a different driver. My Laserjet was also working fine until the power supply croaked on the print server. :-( I also have a nearly identical 6.3-RELEASE setup rolled out to 8 machines so far, and have had no problems printing to various HP printers. > > > We could always bring back gimp-print if there is a demand for it. > If there are a lot of problems with gutenprint, that might not be a bad idea, but if most people are doing OK with it I'd rather help work out this glitch that see man-hours spent on redundant ports. > > > Jason, please try gimp-print and see if it works for you > I tried to install it a few days ago, but it didn't build. I will try again when I have more time. > > actually what version of foomatic-db do you have installed? First try was with packages from the 6.3-RELEASE CD. On Sunday, I did a portsnap fetch and update, and reinstalled cups*, gutenprint*, and foomatic* from source. Still the same problem. FYI, I tried selecting some other printers, like HP and Panasonic. In every case, the foomatic+gutenprint driver produced the same error: Unable to load the requested driver: Unable to create the Foomatic driver [HP-LaserJet_1100,gutenprint]. Either that driver does not exist, or you don't have the required permissions to perform that operation. I also tried doing the setup from the cups server at localhost:631. The setup would finish, but then the printer would be stopped as soon as I tried to access it. Jason