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Mobile +2783 588 0028</div></span></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 2018-10-19 at 11:35 +0100, Brian wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>On Fri 19 Oct 2018 at 10:17:32 +0200, Charles Irons wrote:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Hello Brian</pre><pre>I hope Friday offers you a relaxing weekend.</pre><pre>I ran the command from your email and the results are below.</pre><pre>I have used synaptic a few times over the years.</pre><pre>Maybe I could delete the printer and disconnect the cable, then uninstall</pre><pre>HPLip and re-install version 3.18.9</pre><pre>Then connect the printer and do HP-setup?</pre><pre>That might produce a matched set of software??</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>You could do that but, to me, the problem appears to lie within another</pre><pre>part of the printing system such as CUPS or a filter from cups-filters.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I suppose this long search may possibly be helpful to other users.</pre><pre>I value your advice as always.</pre><pre>**********************************</pre><pre>Ran the command that you required.</pre><pre>chas@Charles-PC:~$ sudo cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/test.ppd -m printer/foo -e</pre><pre>/etc/nsswitch.conf > outfile 2>log</pre><pre>[sudo] password for chas:</pre><pre>Segmentation fault</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>All that cupsfilter does is run all the filters for the job without</pre><pre>sending it to the printer. I do not understand the crash. Mystifying.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>chas@Charles-PC:~$</pre><pre>**********relevant syslog, auth.log and dkpg.log follow with a few</pre><pre>"highlights" that I found.</pre><pre>**************************************************************************************************</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Nothing of use that I can spot in the logs.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>[...]</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>A CUPS error log should help. Advice is at</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DissectingandDebuggingtheCUPSPrintingSystem">https://wiki.debian.org/DissectingandDebuggingtheCUPSPrintingSystem</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>sudo with commands will be needed much of the time.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Good luck.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>-- </pre><pre>Brian.</pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote><pre>Hello Brian</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>My thanks to all those who tried to advise me. </pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I finally found the Ubuntu-ZA community website and Anton solved the problem using Teamviewer and WhatsApp. </pre><pre><br></pre><pre>He obviously knows linux very well after working with it for over 10 years.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I still have other issues but hope Anton will solve those as well.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Ubuntu 18.04.1 is working well otherwise and I am grateful that I do not have to learn something else at age 79.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Enjoy the weekend. Wishing ubuntu-users every success . Chas</pre><pre><br></pre><pre></pre></body></html>