CUPS broken - RESOLVED
todd pitts
pitts.todd at ieee.org
Tue Oct 3 22:03:01 PDT 2006
> todd pitts wrote:
> > The problem was simple (although very hard to diagnose). There must be a world readable subdirectory called tmp in /var/spool/cups. If this is not there you can't configure the printer options via the web interface (you get a completely meaningless server-error-internal-error message). Also, there are NO indications in /var/log/cups/error_log that this is the problem - even on debug2. I suggest that an appropriate error message be added to the debug logs and a comment be put in the docs referencing both web-interface failure to configure and the lpoptions -p printername -l return of "lpoptions: printername has no PPD file!" so the folks can actually use all of the other fine work that has been done on CUPS.
>
> This directory should normally be created by cupsd with the right
> permissions on startup if you are using a recent enough version of
> CUPS (1.2 and higher for sure, maybe some 1.1.x versions, too...)
>
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Publishing Software http://www.easysw.com
Michael - I am using stock fedora core 4 install cups. Version is 1.1.23. Is this a known bug that has been fixed in 1.2?
-Todd
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