Hello, everyone... after a number of years away from CRUX, I'm now running 64-bit CRUX 2.8 since the day it was released a few weeks ago but having some issues with CUPS printing. CUPS 1.6.1 sees the Brother HL-5250DN laser printer using a PPD file (from OpenPrinting.org) and connected through a USB cable, and CUPS allows me to configure the printer through the web interface. It prints a test page (after some delay) and it does allow printing from the command line as root, or regular user. However, none of my GUI apps seem to communicate with the printer, and the only print options found in the application print menus are "Print to file" or "Print to LPR". Using the Print to LPR option fails, nothing prints, and no errors show up in the error log. Having the usblp module blacklisted or loaded has made no difference. I've set the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file for "debug" mode but see no errors that would appear to cause this issue. I've installed cups, ghostscript, cups-filters, gutenprint, foomatic-filters, a2ps, and psutils, but still the printer is not visible in any GUI app. Several days have been spent searching the web for clues and I've tried everything that looked to be a possible solution, but no luck. Should any of you have any ideas what the problem might be, I'd certainly appreciate hearing about them. Thank you all for any help you can offer.
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 11:24:10PM -0600, B Johnson wrote:
Hello, everyone... after a number of years away from CRUX, I'm now running 64-bit CRUX 2.8 since the day it was released a few weeks ago but having some issues with CUPS printing.
CUPS 1.6.1 sees the Brother HL-5250DN laser printer using a PPD file (from OpenPrinting.org) and connected through a USB cable, and CUPS allows me to configure the printer through the web interface. It prints a test page (after some delay) and it does allow printing from the command line as root, or regular user. However, none of my GUI apps seem to communicate with the printer, and the only print options found in the application print menus are "Print to file" or "Print to LPR". Using the Print to LPR option fails, nothing prints, and no errors show up in the error log.
I guess you mean gtk applications? If so, recompile gtk. You should get a footprint error with a new module libprintbackend-cups.so. Update gtk and printing should work as expected again. HTH and best regards Juergen
I guess you mean gtk applications? If so, recompile gtk. You should get a footprint error with a new module libprintbackend-cups.so. Update gtk and printing should work as expected again.
HTH and best regards Juergen
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Good day, Juergen Yes, gtk applications is correct, and the gtk recompile as suggested did fix this issue. Thank you so much for your help.
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