problem with Lexmark z53 and cupsys-driver-gimpprint

[Scott Sweeny]

I haven't looked inside the .deb or anything, but it appears that it's
trying to stop cups so it can install the drivers, but it seems to
have both a syntax error (hence the Usage: statement) and an error in
which init script it's supposed to use.


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 16:13:40 -0700, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> cupsd doesn't exist on my system in init.d:
> 
> $ ls -l /etc/init.d/cupsd
> ls: /etc/init.d/cupsd: No such file or directory
> 
> So to remove that package, it seems it needs to access a non-existent script.
> Is there a way around this problem?  I just wonder if there was an
> error as well when I installed it in the first place, and that's why
> /etc/init.d/cupds didn't get created initially.
> 
> But I just noticed that there is a /etc/init.d/cupsys script, which
> seems to control the cupsd service.  I wonder if that's the correct
> script but under a different name???
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:44:02 -0400, Scott Sweeny <ssweeny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >From that error message it looks like it was trying to stop cupsd, but
> > there was a typo or something in the script.  Try typing
> > /etc/init.d/cupsd stop and then removing that package.
> >
> > On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:29:35 -0700, Daniel Robitaille
> >
> >
> > <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I have been trying to get Ubuntu to talk to my Lexmark z53 printer,
> > > and it doesn't work.  The latest attempt tonight was to install
> > > cupsys-driver-gimpprint from universe since it seems to solve some
> > > printing problems accoridng to some previous posts on the list (since
> > > I installed it, the z53 driver has now appeared when creating a new
> > > print queue, so I believe that I need that package one way or
> > > another.)
> > >
> > > But that didn't solve my problem with the printer. And now I cannot
> > > even remove that packages via synaptic.  The error I get is:
> > >
> > > Removing cupsys-driver-gimpprint ...
> > >  * Usage: /etc/init.d/cupsd {start|stop|restart|force-reload}
> > > dpkg: error processing cupsys-driver-gimpprint (--remove):
> > >  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> > >
> > > And since /etc/init.d/cupsd doesn't exist, I can understand why it's failing.
> > >
> > > So the 2 questions:
> > >
> > > a) anyone knows how to setup a Lexmark z53 printer? It works fine in a
> > > Fedora partition on the same computer, so it's not a hardware problem.
> > >
> > > b) Am I stuck with that cupsys-driver-gimpprint packages forever?  Or
> > > there is a way to remove it even with that error.  I don't really like
> > > having an unremovable package since that can only lead to problems on
> > > the long run.
> > >
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