Using lp with kubuntu

[Jonathan]

>
> On Nov 15, 2006, at 20:36 , Jonathan wrote:
>
> > bigbird at sananda:~/bin$ lpstat
> > _Printer_: Ritas_DJ460 at sananda 'Ritas Portable Deskjet' (dest
> > Ritas_DJ460 at sananda)
> > Queue: 5 printable jobs
> > Server: pid 4551 active
> > Status: job 'bigbird at sananda+680' saved at 10:02:55.710
> > Rank   Owner/ID               Pr/Class Job Files
> > Size Time
> > 1      bigbird at sananda+701          A   237 printcap
> > 195 10:02:55
> > 2      bigbird at sananda+21           A   238 (STDIN)
> > 15694 10:02:55
> > 3      bigbird at sananda+76           A   176 (STDIN)
> > 14982 10:02:55
> > 4      bigbird at sananda+76           A   177 (STDIN)
> > 14982 10:02:55
> > 5      bigbird at sananda+680          A   178 print
> > 2453 10:02:55
> > done   bigbird at sananda+701          A   231 printcap
> > 195 10:02:55
> > Error: loop in printcap- Ritas_DJ460 at sananda -> Ritas_DJ460 at sananda
>
> The problem here is that you're getting the LPRng versions of lp and
> lpstat instead of the CUPS ones, and no, they won't work too well
> together on the same machine.  You could try disabling LPRng's lpd
> and adding cups-lpd to {,x}inetd.conf, but I wouldn't want to trust
> such a configuration.
>
> --
> brandon s. allbery    [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]     allbery at kf8nh.com
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH
>
>
>
Thanks.  That's exactly it.
I fixed the problem by uninstalling the lprng package and installing the cupsys-bsd package which contains the versions of lp, etc. that work with cups.