[cups.general] cant print (SOLVED)

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Sunday 25 June 2006 06:56, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Michael W. Holdeman <lists at ptfd.org> wrote (Sunday 25 June 2006 03:34):
> >> > D [23/Jun/2006:15:24:01 -0400] [Job 14] /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp: No
> >> > such file or directory E [23/Jun/2006:15:24:01 -0400] PID 18950
> >> > (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!
> >>
> >> Here is your main problem for now!! (Note, that the "E" at the
> >> beginning of such a line means "Error")
> >>
> >> What is the output of
> >>
> >>   "ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp"
> >>   "ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/*"
> >>
> >> ? Does the "ipp" backend exist? Is it executable?
> >
> > no teh ipp backend does not exist. Where can I get it? I have re-emerged
> > cups,
>
> Can't remember what you said about your distro, but mentioning
> "emerge" sounds like it is "Gent-uuhhh"  :-P
>
> Some distros (f.e. Ubuntu) put all existing backends into a
> subdir "/usr/lib/cups/backend-available/" and then create
> some symlinks
>
>    /usr/lib/cups/backend/$my_BE --> ../backend-available/$my_BE
>
> This way they artificially disable some of the available backends.
> Maybe you only need to add a missing symlink for the ipp BE?
>
> Also, in case your system is 64bit, look if you shouldn't be
> using s.th. like "/usr/lib64/cups/...."
Gentoo moved /usr/lib/cups/backend to /usr/libexec/cups/backend.  A simple 
symlink solved it for me..

Mike
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Michael W. Holdeman


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