client error not possible

[jwcjconnolly at kc.rr.com]

Hi,
I have been using cups on a slackware10 system under gnome for several months without incident. From one day to the next the printer (epson stylus color 740)stopped responding to all printing jobs except those directly from gimp. When I tried to correct the problem from localhost:631 I could not get to the admin page -- the system timed out. Eventually I installed the most recent version of cups (1.1.21) from slackware current. That allowed me to install and modify printers, but not configure an existing printer. A typical error message an unsuccessful job (from debug2 level) is:

E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10722 stopped with status 1!
E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] [Job 232] unable to open print file "/var/spool/cups/d00232-001" - Permission denied
E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] [Job 232] No pages found!
E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10724 stopped with status 1!
E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10723 stopped with status 1!

The printer description at localhost:631/printers/... is:
Description: epson
Location: office
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
"No pages found!"
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0

I occasionally install new software on my system and I may have installed something that broke cups for me. I sure would like to know how to get it fixed!
Thanks, jwc