ESP Ghostscript in stalled, but still says 'Hint: Do you...'

[Anonymous]

> I have a newly installed Gentoo Linux - kernel 2.6.11. I installed CUPS 1.1.23-r1, gimp-print 4.2.7 and ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1-r8. My printer is an Epson Stylus C62, which worked fine before, on older HW running is much the same setup on Mandrake. I used the web interface to add this printer to CUPS, and I could see the Epson C62 listed in the proper place (A large number of times - why is that, BTW?).
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> But - when I try to print, nothing happens. My error_log gets the following chunk of lines added:
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> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] ReadClient: 7 POST /printers/Epson HTTP/1.1
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] print_job: request file type is application/postscript.
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root'
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root'
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] Adding default job-sheets values "none,none"...
> I [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] Adding start banner page "none" to job 4.
> I [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] Adding end banner page "none" to job 4.
> I [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] Job 4 queued on 'Epson' by 'root'.
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] Job 4 hold_until = 0
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] StartJob(4, 0x7b39a0)
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] StartJob() id = 4, file = 0/1
> E [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 4!
> I [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] CancelJob: id = 4
> D [25/May/2005:17:58:54 +0000] ProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=0
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> I tried to run 'strace -ff' on cupsd, but I can't see anywhere that it even tries to find the ghostscripts program in any form. So where do I go from here? Just give up?

Same problem, same printer here. I solved it typing simply setting up the foomaticdb USE flag in my make.conf file and typing

# emerge foomatic
# emerge -NDv world

Have luck!

Alejandro Nova