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I updated to the latest version of CUPS a couple of weeks ago, but didn't reboot
the box until this morning, when some process locked up X. Since
rebooting, I can't print to my local printers from apps which normally
print without any problems.
It's not a cupsd.conf problem, because I can bring up the browser
interface (localhost:631) and print test pages, add and delete printers,
etc. But if I try to print from an application....nada.
This is what happens when I try to run a print job from a DOS app running
in DOSemu - usually works fine:
[rcs@officebox: ~]$ xdos &
kernel CPU speed is 1300000099 Hz
Running on CPU=586, FPU=1
lpr: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable
lpr: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable
This is what I get when trying to print off a web page in Firefox:
[rcs@officebox: ~]$ /usr/local/firefox/firefox &
[2] 2379
[rcs@officebox: ~]$ lpr: error - scheduler not responding!
This happens even if I run Firefox (or xdos) as root, so it's not a
permissions problem.
This is running on an updated Mandrake 9.2 machine. If I try to use
Mandrake's printer configuration utility, I get an error message from
lpstat about not being able to connect to the server.
Yes, I did Google it. Most of the issues there dealt with configuration
problems involving network or Samba printers...neither of which apply
here.
I'm using the CUPS versions of the lp utilities - they're all symlinked to
the lp*-cups versions.
Anyone seen this before and have a clue? None of the previous problems
I've had with CUPS (like running LPRng at the same time) apply any more.
OK, all fixed. There was a typo in the /etc/cups/client.conf file. I had changed the hostname of the server, and there was a letter missing in the servername definition in that file.
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