CUPS-1.2.2 on FreeBSD 6.1-stable problem

Petyo M petyo at mailinator.com
Thu Oct 5 15:56:29 PDT 2006


Hello!
I fixed my problem- I changed URI in printers.conf to:

parallel:///dev/lpt0

Best regards,
Petyo Milotinov

> Hello!
> I upgraded CUPS to 1.2.2 on FreeBSD 6.1(stable) from ports.
> I am able to administer it via its web interface. I added a printer:
>
> HP DeskJet 610C Foomatic/hpijs (recommended)
>
> Its URI is
>
> lpd://localhost/queue
>
> But when I try to print a test page nothing happens and I have following error in /var/log/cups/error_log:
>
> Network host 'localhost' is busy, down, or unreachable; will retry in 30 seconds...
> (I added first rule in ipfw to be allow all from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1 so it is not *network* problem)
>
> When I was with CUPS 1.1 everything was perfect. And now I can do nothing via CUPS (I am still able to print via ghostscript and hpijs).
> When I try to configure printer from KDE (3.5.4) I receive an error message that it cannot connect to CUPS server.
>
> What is going on? How can I setup *LOCAL* printer and *NOT A NETWORK PRINTER* with CUPS?
> Any suggestions are appreciated!
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> Petyo Milotinov
>





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