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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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cups: printers disappeared [solution inside]

i have no idea when or what happened, but localhost:631 lists no printers any more (and also kde, gnome, ... says, there are no printers around)

any ideas what can have caused it? (i didn't used printing for ~1month, so i don't know when it happened exactly)

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kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: cups: printers disappeared [solution inside]

I think it has to do with the recent cups update, that renamed your cups config files to .pacsave files. At least I remember pacman alerting me about this, when I upgraded cups.
I think the files renamed were:
/etc/cups/cups.conf
/etc/cups/printers.conf
/etc/cups/mime.types

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paranoos

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From: thornhill.on.ca

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 442

Re: cups: printers disappeared [solution inside]

yup, same thing happened to me too. lol i forgot about pacsave, but it's ok cuz my printer is hella easy to configure once you've already got the foomatic driver downloaded.

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: cups: printers disappeared [solution inside]

/etc/cups/printers.conf restored - thanx for help (forgot to exclude this file in pacman.conf)

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