Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:55:04 -0400 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22T=C4=B3l_Coosemans=22?= <tijl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cups on FreeBSd-12.1p7 Message-ID: <7fa512bd47eae8547d772731e14eb174.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> In-Reply-To: <20200729111005.69aba9bf@FreeBSD.org> References: <927fbf2aa31817ad0939bc7557591bf4.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <20200729111005.69aba9bf@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, July 29, 2020 05:10, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:46:25 -0400 "James B. Byrne via
> freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Following a pkg upgrade the printers on my desktop stopped working. I use
>> cups and I see this in /var/log/cups/error.log
. . .
>> (gs_ll3.ps) 1 Pscript5Idiom.pkgsave IdiomSet 7
>> Pscript5Idiom.pkgsave
>
> The pkgsave extension is used by pkg when it has to install a file over
> an existing file. It renames the existing file with this extension then.
> Pscript5Idiom should be in /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.52/Resource/IdiomSet/
> So my guess is something went wrong with the registration of the
> ghostscript package during a previous upgrade. You can just remove this
> file. Maybe you should also search your system for other pkgsave files.
>
>
Thank you very much. I have eliminated the problematic files and directories,
run 'pkg check --shlibs --dependencies --checksums --all', and forced the
install of all reported packages. The print service now works again.
Still cannot get cups-pdf to work but that is another problem for another day.
Thank you.
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