[gentoo-user] CUPS problem

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

CUPS has been working flawlessly for quite some time, one of the feats
of newer GNU/Linux installs (to one who couldn't get an HP mainstream
inkjet working right some 10 years ago).    Simultaneously, I notices
that Apple now owns the copyright, and after a recent upgrade, stopped
working.

I have to blame myself, because running cfg-update, the changes to
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf were considerable, involving three, and not two
files to be merged.  The interface of xxdiff is not intuitive, to me:
I've blundered through it's kludgey structure for a while, but this
time I was genuinely confused.  Furthermore, I made the mistake of
taking a stab in the dark.

So I uninstalled CUPS completely, and reinstalled.  Then installed the
printer again.  It is doing the same thing: the interface at
localhost:631 says that the printer is ready to print.  Any job sent
to the queue, including test prints, are immediately "stopped".
Reprint a job, and it is immediately stopped.

Hypotheses:
   New ASUS M2N-E Motherboard (was working before upgrading CUPS)
   Configuration file issues.  (I have deleted the entire directory
/etc/cups, and the new derault file was replaced with a simplified one
scavenged of a mailing list, but with no improvement.
   Unknown factors (where to start?)

So I am turning to the mailing list for suggestions.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Alan Davis

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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan  lngndvs@gmail.com

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