From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C955D1381FA for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B65A8E09EF; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A93E0E092B for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:47:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6969C33FFEE for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:47:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.406 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.406 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.753, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.651, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EVy1Emqk9Wyc for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A771340015 for ; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WrDb9-00011r-IK for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:47:23 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:47:23 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:47:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Please help me get my printer working again. Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20140601123316.GA3701@acm.acm> <538B3F53.3090807@gmail.com> <20140601182148.GB3701@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26) X-Archives-Salt: 38510324-ac8c-435e-9e15-64b5eb441bfa X-Archives-Hash: 87bcc447d5fb0969cf4a31a8ba053934 Alan Mackenzie muc.de> writes: > So, thanks for the email, it brought me back to sanity. A few things to remember. Always check that cupsd is running. (# rc-status). You may need to stop and start the cupsd. Go to the /etc/cups dir and make a second copy of the *.conf files and any others that you use. I give mine a .date string, so as to make recovery trivial in the future. Also it's easy to 'scp' those files around to machines if/when necessary. The cups gui interface just modifies those files. Last, become familar with http://localhost:631/ to use the everychanging cups interface to manage your networked and printing resources. If you have HP printers, install this: net-print/hplip One last nuance with cups. Sometimes cupsd is running but the cups software has stop printing. Go to the admin section of cups (http://localhost:631/) and just start the printer again; it's a bug_anomoly I have seen too many times. Really, it's not that difficult with these tidbits to manage and recover functional printing. Using dbus as a flag setting never hurts either and check your cups flag settings. Use the ethernet port in lieu of the usb port, imho, if you have both on any given printer...... hth, James