From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3qQR-0003SO-Gh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17704E0ABC; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4048E0ABC for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:17:47 +0000 (UTC) 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-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KSB00G2EU5NEAD0@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:17:47 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,653,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="31827575" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:17:47 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id n9UCHlld019433 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:17:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 1BEAB894; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:17:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:17:42 +0100 (CET) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Whose bug is it? [was: hal greps my USB printer - help !] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: Message-id: References: X-Archives-Salt: 266f738b-4b49-4dcf-8428-95807132e826 X-Archives-Hash: baedaf35eb9dcb68de0483d8d8c2d28b On 30 Oct, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > After a long search on the net I've found out > that the permissions of the usb device are set wrong > (root.usb) > It looks like an UDEV rule installed by sane-backends > sets the user to root and the group to usb. > With these settings CUPS won't recognize/use the printer. > > I had to add the following rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules > (e.g.) > > ATTR{idVendor}=="0482", ATTR{idProduct}=="0015", MODE:="0777", > GROUP:="lp", USER:="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}:="yes" this must be OWNER:="lp" of course. > > where one has to vary the idVendor and idProduct, of course. > > Even for a casual Gentoo user that's neither trivial nor comfortable. > If the printer breaks sometime one has to remember to change that rule. > And it wasn't easy to find that advice. > > Where should I report a bug to ? > To > net-print/cups > or > media-gfx/sane-backends > or where else? > > Thanks for your help, > Helmut. > > -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany