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bjorntj

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[SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

In certain applications, like evince, I have a printer listed that I can not find in my CUPS config (it's not listed in eg. Firefox). Not a big deal but doens't look right having the printer there, so if anyone can point me in the right direction where to delete this printer, I would appreciate it...

Regards,

BTJ

Last edited by bjorntj (2015-07-21 12:28:24)

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WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

Have you enabled cups-browsed.service?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS#Server

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bjorntj

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

No, it is a printer that I installed halfway when I first installed my computer...

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WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

Is it listed under 'lpstat -a -v'? Have you checked /etc/cups/printers.conf?

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bjorntj

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

Have checked printers.conf yes and it is not listed using 'lpstat -a -v'

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"It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows"

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

Well that pretty much eliminates CUPS as the culprit. I guess this is a gtk3 application-specific problem. Possibly this printer is configured in dconf or whatever gnome uses these days. I'm afraid I can't offer any advice about fixing that though, I don't use gtk3.

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bjorntj

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

Ok, thx for trying...

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Roken

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

Have youb tried taking at a look in the CUPS web interface (localhost:631) and simply deleting the printer from there?

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bjorntj

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

Yes, as I said; the printer is not listed in CUPS, neither in printers.conf nor the web interface...

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pb

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

How did you install it? Some printer drivers are install via manufacuture's scripts i.e. Samsung, and we can uninstall it run this script with --uninstall option or something like this.

demaio

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

I had a similar problem. Seems like some gnome apps (e.g. evince) use avahi for printer detection. Try disabling the avahi daemons which is not so easy because AFAIR they use dbus activation. I had to do this to completely disable avahi:

systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service
systemctl disable avahi-daemon.socket
systemctl disable avahi-dnsconfd.service
systemctl mask avahi-daemon.service
systemctl mask avahi-daemon.socket
systemctl mask avahi-dnsconfd.service
systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service
systemctl stop avahi-daemon.socket
systemctl stop avahi-dnsconfd.service

I don't know if the "disable" lines are really necessary but only disabling and stopping avahi services brought them back at next boot [EDIT: or at the next start of evince, I don't remember exactly]

Last edited by demaio (2015-07-21 08:01:26)

bjorntj

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Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

How did you install it? Some printer drivers are install via manufacuture's scripts i.e. Samsung, and we can uninstall it run this script with --uninstall option or something like this.

I don't remember but I think I was using the CUPS web interface...

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Someone wrote:
"I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages"
To which someone replied:
"It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows"

bjorntj

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 150

Re: [SOLVED] Howto remove a printer I can not find?

I had a similar problem. Seems like some gnome apps (e.g. evince) use avahi for printer detection. Try disabling the avahi daemons which is not so easy because AFAIR they use dbus activation. I had to do this to completely disable avahi:

systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service
systemctl disable avahi-daemon.socket
systemctl disable avahi-dnsconfd.service
systemctl mask avahi-daemon.service
systemctl mask avahi-daemon.socket
systemctl mask avahi-dnsconfd.service
systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service
systemctl stop avahi-daemon.socket
systemctl stop avahi-dnsconfd.service

I don't know if the "disable" lines are really necessary but only disabling and stopping avahi services brought them back at next boot [EDIT: or at the next start of evince, I don't remember exactly]

But this did the trick , thx....

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Someone wrote:
"I understand that if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear strange Satanic messages"
To which someone replied:
"It's even worse than that; play it forwards and it installs Windows"