[gentoo-user] still can't print

[gentoo-user] still can't print

[maxim wexler]

Hello everybody,

CUPS was a bust so I emerged lprng. No dice!

F'rinstance, if I try to print from firefox a window
opens saying "Progress: Preparing..." then after about
15s it disappears. Then silence, save for the weeping
and wailing from yours truly.

A look at File->Print->Printer Properties->Print
Command reveals:

lpr $ {MOZ_PRINTER_NAME: +'-P'} $ {MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}

FWIW.

If an attempt to print from nedit a dialogue box opens
with the message that lpr -J "file" is the command
used

After about 10s a box opens  saying "...Cannot open
connection to localhost - No such file or
directory..."

sarawak heathen # cat  /etc/hosts          
# /etc/hosts:  This file describes a number of
hostname-to-address
#              mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem.  It
is mostly
#              used at boot time, when no name servers
are running.
#              On small systems, this file can be used
instead of a
#              "named" name server.  Just add the
names, addresses
#              and any aliases to this file...
# $Header:
/var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/hosts,v 1.8
2003/08/04 20:12:25 azarah Exp $
#

127.0.0.1       localhost       sarawak
# IPV6 versions of localhost and co
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Can't find anything else to show the group. Where does
lprng put its logs if it logs? There's nothing in
/var/logs, dmesg or /var/spool/lpd/lp.

Using a Deskjet 612C. Yes, the appropriate modules are
loaded and the printer is found at bootup.

-mw


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Re: [gentoo-user] still can't print

[Manuel McLure]

On Sunday 12 February 2006 11:05, maxim wexler wrote:

> 127.0.0.1       localhost       sarawak
> # IPV6 versions of localhost and co

Try

127.0.0.1 sarawak localhost

(i.e. list the hostname of the machine first)
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Re: [gentoo-user] still can't print

[maxim wexler]

--- Manuel McLure <manuel@mclure.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 12 February 2006 11:05, maxim wexler
> wrote:
> 
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost       sarawak
> > # IPV6 versions of localhost and co
> 
> Try
> 
> 127.0.0.1 sarawak localhost

Nope. 

googling led me to emerge apsfilter -- another dud :^(

>From dmesg:
<...>
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected 

[as per BIOS]

parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 610C

[but the printer is a 612C FWIW]

plip: parport0 has no IRQ. Using IRQ-less mode,which
is fairly inefficient! 

[why did it suddenly lose irq 7? rmmodded plip to no
avail]

NET3 PLIP version 2.4-parport gniibe@mri.co.jp
plip0: Parallel port at 0x378, not using IRQ.
<...>

Viewing log (V) from apsfilter setup:

Tue Feb 14 23:54:15 MST 2006
ijs/DESKJET_612 300x300 medium full
Time for ghostscript:
sh: hpijs: command not found
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Can't start ijs server "hpijs"
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.

real    0m0.070s
user    0m0.041s
sys     0m0.011s
Time for printer:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Feb 14 23:54
/tmp/apsfilter6457/test_page.aps
/usr/bin/apsfilter: line 1294: /dev/lp1: No such
device or address

real    0m0.015s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.001s
Wed Feb 15 11:50:46 MST 2006
ijs/DESKJET_610 300x300 medium full
Time for ghostscript:
sh: hpijs: command not found
ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Can't start ijs server "hpijs"
**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.

but /usr/share/apsfilter/drivers/hpijs/DJ6XXP exists!

More weirdness: there's _no_ /dev/lp0! And using
/dev/lp1(which does exist) or /dev/lp0 in the
apsfilter setup leads to "no such file" error.

Maybe mknod? Anybody know the full command?

BTW, apsfilter lists my spooldir as /var/spool/cups.
But I did emerge -C cups(did that delete /dev/lp0?) in
order to emerge lprng.



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RE: [gentoo-user] still can't print

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxim wexler [mailto:blissfix@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: 15 February 2006 23:47
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] still can't print
> 
> 
> [snip...]
> Wed Feb 15 11:50:46 MST 2006
> ijs/DESKJET_610 300x300 medium full
> Time for ghostscript:
> sh: hpijs: command not found
> ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Can't start ijs server "hpijs"
> **** Unable to open the initial device, quitting.

I can't remember, have you tried to get your printer working with the
hpijs driver?

Emerge -uDpv hpijs
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RE: [gentoo-user] still can't print

[maxim wexler]

> 
> I can't remember, have you tried to get your printer
> working with the
> hpijs driver?
> 
> Emerge -uDpv hpijs

Yow! that's 32 megs. Had to be satisfied with simple
emerge hpijs.

Then it worked! Well, not quite. The test page printed
OK but when I ran lpc reread as per the instructions
at the close of the apsfilter setup, got this:

sarawak heathen # lpc reread
Printer 'lp@localhost' - cannot open connection - No
such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol

And an attempt at lpr -J test.txt resulted in

"...Sending job 'heathen@sarawak+929' to lp@localhost
Cannot open location to localhost no such file or
directory..."

And what's going on here:

heathen@sarawak ~ $ cat /etc/lprng/printcap
# /etc/printcap: printer capability database.
# $Header:
/var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-print/lprng/files/printcap,v
1.2 2004/07/18 04:19:01 dragonheart Exp $
#
# You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc.
for your
# own filters. See the printcap(5) manpage for more
details.

lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry
        :lp=/dev/lp1
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp
        :af=/var/log/lp-acct
        :lf=/var/log/lp-errs
        :pl#66
        :pw#80
        :pc#150
        :mx#0
        :sh

# rlp|Remote printer entry
#         :lp=
#         :rm=remotehost
#         :rp=remoteprinter
#         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote
#         :mx#0
#         :sh

Why does it think my printer is at /dev/lp1? It's at
/dev/lp0 and that's where I pointed apsfilter-setup.

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[gentoo-user] RE: still can't print

[Mick]

maxim wexler wrote:

> Then it worked! Well, not quite. The test page printed
> OK but when I ran lpc reread as per the instructions
> at the close of the apsfilter setup, got this:
> 
> sarawak heathen # lpc reread
> Printer 'lp@localhost' - cannot open connection - No
> such file or directory
> Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol

I am afraid I have never used apsfilter to know its intricacies, although it
is claimed that it 'works straight out of the box'.  When I run this
command on my non-apsfilter CUPS set up this is what I get:
====================================================
# lpc reread
reread is not implemented by the CUPS version of lpc
====================================================

Someone else who is more versed on apsfilter will hopefully be able to help
- you may want to start a new thread with apsfilter included in the title?

PS. It is worth checking how many printer destinations are there and that
you have set up the correct default printer by:
=====================================================
# lpstat -a
Compaq-HP accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
DeskJet-930C accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
PS121 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
# lpstat -d
system default destination: PS121
=====================================================
The command lpoptions -d PS121 would set printer PS121 as the default
printer.
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Mick

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