cups

[albi]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:05:42 +0200
Bas van Gils <basvg at cs.ru.nl> wrote:

> Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/yeti D
> [04/Aug/2006:10:59:22 +0200] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0
> (successful-ok) E [04/Aug/2006:10:59:26 +0200] PID 20730
> (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 1! D
> [04/Aug/2006:10:59:26 +0200] [Job 69] File 0 is complete. I
> [04/Aug/2006:10:59:26 +0200] [Job 69] Backend returned status 1
> (failed) D [04/Aug/2006:10:59:27 +0200] Unloading job 69...
> 
> The printer icon stays active... nothing happens. Clues, anyone?

you're using localhost, does the lo work properly ?
i've seen situations with ubuntu breezy where the interface lo suddenly
only would be configured *only* for ipv6 and not ipv4, causing trouble..

ifconfig lo would then look like this :

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1805 (1.7 KiB)  TX bytes:1805 (1.7 KiB)

but should be :

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1805 (1.7 KiB)  TX bytes:1805 (1.7 KiB)

 -> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up

one other thing is that i've started to use the webinterface on port
631, you have to enable that first (use a search-engine to find out, 
but in my experience it's a must for printing in networks

it gives often useful information (==errors) and it is an excellent
add-on for the gnome-cups-manager (and is also much nicer in a network,
why would my users need to do ssh -X and gnome-cups-manager on a server
anyway)

-- 
grtjs,
albi