Printing does not work in 8.04

[Conrad Knauer]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Milosz Derezynski
<internalerror at gmail.com> wrote:

> on the Live CD the printer was basically immediately usable.
>
> I've been running this system as Gutsy before, and updated to Hardy in a
> very early phase (4 Months before the release i think), could some gradual
> updates caused a misconfiguration of the system?

That is entirely possible; consider how libflashsupport became a major
headache for "early Hardy adopters"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/192888
mostly because "libflashsupport would not automatically be removed by
update-manager when it was changed from a dependent package to a
recommended package during the Hardy development cycle."

The best word to describe such things is "cruft"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft)

> If yes, what in particular
> could i check for? (I've already tried uninstalling everything cups,
> manually deleting all directories belonging to it and then reinstalling, to
> no avail.)

Question: if you create a new user and log in as them, can you print?
(do you have a ~/.cups directory?)
Did you try deleting (or renaming) /var/cache/cups ?

Just some ideas...

CK