I just solved the problem on my OpenSuSE 11.1.
lpr was giving me "Request Entity Too Large", with no other indication, what could be wrong. Not even in syslog I found something.
When I straced cupsd I found out, that for some reason, all of my spool directories had been mounted read-only after the last reboot. After remounting them rw printing works again. Hope that helps to somebody with the same problem.

Regards,
didiw

This can happen when there is no disk space available for /var
Please run the command
$ df -h
and see if the partition containing /var is not full

Ajayakumar.B.S

Hi

pls mark this post as solved so others doing a search can find it useful

aus9, FYI this is a 4 year old thread where the OP last activity was 2 years ago.

ahh maybe someone did not see the warning that it was an old post?

thanks for checking

Guys,

Recently, I had the same issue.

I executed next 3 steps:

1.- inodes in /var: #df -i /var; inodes in /var were 100% used.

2.- Locate path where inodes are the most: #find . -xdev -type f | cut -d "/" -f 2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

3.- #find /var/"path_finded_with_most_inodes_used" d -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;

NOTE: in my case, I deleted files with 7 or more days of modification time. You can put another value.
NOTE2: /var/"path_finded_with_most_inodes_used" is the output of step 2.

Also, checking in /var/log/cups/error_log is possible see messages like this:
Unable to create "/var/spool/cups/c2880723.N": No space left on device

Please be kind to yourself and others. If you have a new problem do not reopen a thread that was originally started 12 years ago and has been deceased for the past 8 years.

It is much better for you to start your own thread since the software has changed dramatically over time.