[cups.general] "Failed to update TXT record" issue from sometime

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Thu May 24 10:33:07 PDT 2012


Angelo,

On May 24, 2012, at 10:22 AM, angelo wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> thanks for the support,
> so if i understand correctly, the error
> E [24/May/2012:11:45:09 +0200] Failed to update TXT record for laserjet @ angel3: -2
> Is responsability of the avahi patch in cups ?

Yes.

> Is this patch developed from cups team ?

No, although the patch was contributed by Red Hat and Ubuntu developers to Apple/cups.org.  The final implementation in CUPS 1.6 is significantly different than the original patch...

> 
>> Avahi support in CUPS prior to 1.6 is the domain of the Linux distros - the current patch in use has many problems like this...
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On May 24, 2012, at 2:56 AM, angelo <angelo70 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> i am using cups 1.5.2 on debian testing.
>>> 
>>>> From some time, probably after some "apt-get upgrade" i cannot print anymore with my laserjet P1005.
>>> It get detected correctly, i select correct driver foo2xqx, but i get always this error from cups:
>>> 
>>> ..
>>> D [24/May/2012:11:45:09 +0200] Updating TXT record for laserjet @ angel3 (_ipp._tcp)
>>> E [24/May/2012:11:45:09 +0200] Failed to update TXT record for laserjet @ angel3: -2
>>> D [24/May/2012:11:45:09 +0200] Registering Avahi printer laserjet with name "laserjet @ angel3" and type "_ipp._tcp,_cups,_universal"
>>> HTTP/1.1
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> I always get this error, even if i reconnect the printer on another USB port, if i reboot PC, if i reboot the printer.
>>> Every help is really appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Reagrds,
>>> angelo
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