[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#372782: cupsys: further info about problem, partial success (Epson)

[Kenward Vaughan]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.2.1-2
Followup-For: Bug #372782


As a followup, I installed cups-pdf. This works fine.  Obviously the problem
is with CUPS communicating with the printers themselves.

This was first tested after a complete purge of all CUPS components (which 
took out many dependent apps too), followed by reinstallation.

Printconf properly ID'd the HP 1200 (parallel).  The HP still does not respond
to print jobs supposedly processed by CUPS.  Neither CUPS itself nor printconf 
properly saw the Epson R300 at this point (printconf doesn't see it at all).  
All attempts to redefine the Epson URI to something like 
    usb:/dev/usb/lp0
or
    usb:/dev/.static/dev/usb/lp0
or
    epson:(same as above)
failed to work.  

SUCCESS with the Epson!  I removed a local.rules definition for udev, which 
had the form:

BUS=="usb",  SYSFS{serial}=="M16P20407291006080", SYSFS{manufacturer}==
    "EPSON", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cards"

Now the printer shows up properly, I've added it, and printerd out a test 
sheet.  Whew.  When I tried printconf, it stated that the printer is 
unsupported by the gimp-print driver.  I have it matched with the gutenprint 
ppd file.

Both printers are seen by hwinfo (I don't recall if this was in the original 
report). 

Kenward


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.87            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.1           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                   8.15.1.dfsg.1-2 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libacl1                  2.2.37-1        Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                    2.3.6-15        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcupsimage2            1.2.1-2         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2               1.2.1-2         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-2              0.61-6          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgnutls13              1.3.5-1.1       the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libldap2                 2.1.30-13       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3.1        Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1                1.1.18          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                  1.2.1-5         OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base                 3.1-10          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  patch                    2.5.9-4         Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules             5.8.8-6         Core Perl modules
ii  procps                   1:3.2.6-2.2     /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils [poppler-util 3.01-8          Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-11      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
ii  cupsys-client           1.2.1-2          Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20060530-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.22-1         a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
  cupsys/ports: localhost:631 /var/run/cups/cups.sock
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
  cupsys/portserror:
  cupsys/browse: true