[cups.general] Help - cannot manage printers

Ambrose Li ambrose.li at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 20:05:20 PDT 2006


On 12/07/06, Kurt Pfeifle <kpfeifle at danka.de> wrote:
> Ambrose Li <ambrose.li at gmail.com> wrote (Thursday 13 July 2006 02:47):
>
> > CUPS disabled our main print queue for no reason today,
>
> Oh? And you yourself did of course nothing to change anything in
> CUPS or in its environment or OS platform? No update? No "apt-get
> dist-upgrade"? No installation of a new version of PAM? No nothing?

Yes :-/

I did an apt-get update yesterday, then I typed apt-get upgrade and
saw that squid is going to be upgraded so I cancelled the upgrade
because if I upgrade squid during office hours I will get into trouble :-/

> And what's in the error_log file, with LogLevel debug(2)?
>
> And what's in the cupsd.conf? (no comments please, if you paste it)

I got the queue stopped problem worked around by manually editing
/etc/cups/printers.conf, but in the process of trying out things I overwrote
all the configuration files. I will save the files next time if I get
into trouble
again :-/

I think the password problem is caused by /admin not allowing connections
from other than localhost. I probably got confused because cups keeps
asking me for a password instead of telling me I am not allowed to connect.
But I'm not sure.

> > I have tried lppasswd -a root to no avail.
> >
> > This is cups 1.2.1.
>
> And what OS or Linux distro??

Debian Linux unstable.

Sorry for all the trouble.

-- 
cheers,
-ambrose





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