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chris_ak

Member

Registered: 2008-03-25

Posts: 64

I Heart Cups

Alright... I've let this problem go on long enough.  I've tried and tried to find a solution without asking for help, but no dice.  It started out that I couldn't print PDFs.  Now I can't print anything at all.  I don't know what the hell happened, and despite what I've read CUPS remains a mystery to me.  Alright, to the point:

Under the status of my printer it says:  /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb failed

It's not a problem with the printer itself because it's printing fine from windows.  It's an HP Deskjet 5550.  When I installed the printer I followed the instructions on the wiki exactly.  and it all worked fine.  I'm posting my rc.conf, if there's any other info that a solution would require, please let me know.  Thanks in advance for anyone's help on this. 

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Alaska"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT="ter-v16b"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
# Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by udev
MOD_BLACKLIST=(pcspkr)
#
# Modules to load at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a module with a ! to blacklist it
#
MODULES=(powernow-k8 cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave forcedeth usblp !bcm43xx b43 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
HOSTNAME="darkstar"
#
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available
# interfaces.
#
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
#   - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
#   - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
#
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
#
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0 lo wlan0)

#
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
#
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up.  These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network-profiles
#
#NET_PROFILES=(main)

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @laptop-mode @network @netfs @crond @cron @hal !dhcdb !networkmanager @cups @fam @alsa @mpd)


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skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: I Heart Cups

Option one: Sometimes CUPS gets weird when stuff like new kernels are installed. Have you simply tried reinstalling CUPS first (pacman -Sf cups)? If so and things aren't right yet, did you try to redo the printer through the CUPS web interface afterwards?

Option two: If you enter http://darkstar:631 in a web browser, does it get you the CUPS interface? How about http://localhost:631? If the first one works and the second one doesn't, that may be your problem. That will show up in /var/log/cups/error_log as a host not found error of some sort.

eldarion

Member

From: Santarém - Portugal

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 71

Re: I Heart Cups

Just a note: since you have "darkstar" as hostname, make sure you have "darkstar" in /etc/hosts too. Some apps rely on /etc/hosts to get the hostname.

And take a look on /var/log/cups/error_log.