client-error-request-value-too-long

[Anonymous]

HELLO- This message comes also when there is no space
left on the device for printing. my / directory was full,
I deleted files, resubmitted the job and it printed correctly.
SO- it would be nice that the client-error-request-value-too-long
in this case be changed to someting less cryptic. Am running
SUSE 9.3.

> Going to answer my own question:  Turns out that the var/log/cups and
> var/spool/cups directories need to be created prior to running cups.  I
> would have thougt that if they weren't there the program would have created
> them but alas no.  I also would have thought that cupsd would complain when
> it couldn't write the error-log when it was started.  Instead there is a
> cryptic message when executing lpadmin.
>
> Anyways that solved the problem.
>
>
> Rick Burge wrote:
>
> > I've had this problem twice now.  I have installed cups/foomatic on a
> > machine succesfully, install printers, print, all is fine.  I then want to
> > simply move all binaries, libraries, scripts, etc to another identical
> > machine.  All get moved but when I do the foomatic-configure which
> > subsequently runs the lpadmin command the lpadmin command returns
> > "client-error-request-value-too-long" and does install the printer
> > correctly.  I can independently run the lpadmin with the same result.  In
> > one case I rebuilt cups on the machine I was to move cups to and it
> > worked.
> > I must be missing something but for the life of me I don't know what.  I
> > can't keep rebuilding it everytime I want to put it on a different
> > machine.
> >
> > I've seen a couple of posts regarding this error seeking explanation but
> > no responses.
> >
> > Any help?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rick
>