[cups] Problem deleting old printer queues

[Jim Anderson]

Brandon,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I was able to use lpadmin -x to remove the old print queue. That's the 
good news.
More good news is that I can now see my printer on my local PC that I am 
using
as the print server.

Interestingly, when I tried to remove other old print queues, they were 
automatically
regenerated, presummably by cups. I assume that cups was picking up old 
printer
queues that exist elsewhere on my network. At some point, I would like 
to get
rid of them, but that is for another day.

The bad news, is that I cannot print to the printer yet. When I enter:

     lp -dd1130 test.page

the printing fails, and I see an error message in the jobs status window 
that
says:

     d1130-18    test.page      jja     1k      Unknown     stopped
"Unable to open /usr/share/cups/charsets/pdf.utf-8: No such file or 
directory"

I did a search on this message, and the only thing I found was that 
pdf.utf-8
should be part of the standard installation. It does not exist in
my /usr/share/cups directory, or sub-directories.

Jim


On 06/30/2015 11:48 AM, Haines, Brandan wrote:
> Jim A -
>
> Have you tried "lpadmin -x <queue>" at command line as root?
>
> That should do it.
>
> -Brandan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cups-bounces at cups.org [mailto:cups-bounces at cups.org] On Behalf Of Jim Anderson
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 10:24
> To: The CUPS user discussion list.
> Subject: Re: [cups] Problem deleting old printer queues
>
>
>
> I'm stuck on this one and hoping someone associated with CUPS can point me where to look on this issue.
>
> Jim A.
>
>
> On 06/26/2015 01:40 PM, Jim Anderson wrote:
>>
>> I am installing CUPS 1.4.4 on a linux system and having a problem with
>> permissions.
>>
>> I bring up my browser and go to localhost:631 and the cups local page
>> comes up and shows version 1.4.4. I then click on the 'Administration'
>> tab and the administration page comes up as it should, except it shows
>> 4 old printer queues that I had created on a different PC.
>>
>> The current PC is on my local network and the cups installation area
>> is on the local network, not on the PC itself. The old PC also had
>> CUPS installed on the network. I suspect that my current installation
>> is picking up the old queues from the remnants of the old PC
>> installation.
>>
>> My problem is that I cannot delete these old queues. When I clink on a
>> link to one of the old queues and then select 'delete' from the
>> 'Administration' drop down menu, my brower puts up a page that says
>> 'forbidden'.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest where I can look on my network to find and remove
>> the old queue information?
>>
>> Jim Anderson
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