Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:02:13 -0500 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [SOLVED]: Cannot print from mate desktop Message-ID: <a01e0de261f850c95d50f67af23ff227.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <mailman.92.1548849603.98236.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.92.1548849603.98236.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, January 29, 2019 16:18, James B. Byrne wrote:
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> On Tue, January 29, 2019 15:49, James B. Byrne wrote:
>> FreeBSD-11.2p8
>>
>> Following a massive pkg update this morning, followed by
>> a freebsd-update install and restart, I now discover that
>> I cannot print from the mate desktop. When I print from
>> any application on the desktop, libreoffice, pluma, firefox,
>> the printer dialogue shows up, the print job is generated,
>> but nothing prints on the printer. Nor can I find any
>> printer management applet in the toolbar.
>>
The problem of failing to print was solved by (re-?)installing the
cups-filters package. Which is somewhat troublesome since it seems
that package, or its functional equivalent, was installed before the
upgrade and was removed thereby.
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