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perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

cups trouble - fyi

Experienced cups trouble on one of my (many) arch-machines a while back - must have been after an update though I can't say _what_ I updated - I seldom use the printer(s). Other machines with the same updates - I update on average 2-3 times a week :-) - did not have any problems.

The way it manifested itself was when using the cups daemon and accessing printers (http://localhost:631/printers), the disk would start to spin wildly (even on a desktop!!) and memory usage went to some 95% - and it just hung there ...
I solved it by the following:

mv /etc/cups /etc/.cups   # save the old setup
pacman -S cups              # reinstall
/etc/rc.d/cups restart       # restart cups

and after this I could go in and configure the printers again.

rhomp2002

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 38

Re: cups trouble - fyi

Problem with CUPS.  I got the cups restarted as perbh did and that got me to the cups screen.  I then tried to install the printer.  My printer is a Samsung ML2851ND laser printer.  When I got to the point of selecting the PPD, the only printer manufacturers listed were:

Dymo, Epson, Generic, HP, Intellitech, OKI, Raw and Zebra.  Any ideas on where to get updates to this list so I can get the PPD appropriate for my printer?  I remember there was at one time a place that had a lot of info on printers that had drivers that worked under Linux but I can't remember where I found it.  This was about 4 years ago.

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: cups trouble - fyi

Problem with CUPS.  I got the cups restarted as perbh did and that got me to the cups screen.  I then tried to install the printer.  My printer is a Samsung ML2851ND laser printer.  When I got to the point of selecting the PPD, the only printer manufacturers listed were:

Dymo, Epson, Generic, HP, Intellitech, OKI, Raw and Zebra.  Any ideas on where to get updates to this list so I can get the PPD appropriate for my printer?  I remember there was at one time a place that had a lot of info on printers that had drivers that worked under Linux but I can't remember where I found it.  This was about 4 years ago.

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting

and

http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/PPD/