[cups.general] renderer error

[Lawrence Oluyede]

I'm trying to configure the printer on Gentoo Linux following the
Gentoo Printing Guide
(http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml). The printer seems
to work at low level (cat foo > /dev/lp0) and CUPS seems to be
installed correctly but when I try to print the test page from the web
interface I get this error:

D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] renderer PID kid4=12549
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] renderer command:
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] renderer return value: 255
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] renderer received signal: 255
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Process dying with "The
renderer command line returned an unrecognized error code 255.", exit
stat: 1
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] The renderer command line
returned an unrecognized error code 255.
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2]
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Closing renderer
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] KID3 exited with status 1
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Renderer exit stat: 1
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Renderer process finished
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Killing process 12548 (KID3)
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Process dying with "Error
closing renderer", exit stat: 1
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] Error closing renderer
E [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] PID 12546 stopped with status 1!
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] tail process done writing data to STDOUT
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] [Job 2] KID4 finished
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] UpdateJob: job 2, file 0 is complete.
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] CancelJob: id = 2
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] StopJob: id = 2, force = 0
D [12/Sep/2004:18:44:10 +0200] StopJob: printer state is 3

Somebody knows why?

Linux: Gentoo Linux with 2.6.8.1 kernel
Printer: Epson Stylus Color 640
Cups: 1.1.21_rc2
Foomatic: 3.0.1
(every foomatic package is also installed)

-- 
Lawrence
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