[SOLVED]Epson CX3200 + cups + gutenprint

speng · 2009-01-17 22:16:20

I am using the gutenprint driver for my printer, also tried cups, none of them seem to want to print. The printer was automatically detected so thats not a problem, but when I print a test page it automatically changes to:

Stopped: job stopped

Is there a module or something I've forgot to include? All I did was:

*Installed cups
*Started cups daemon
*Tried to print -- Failed
*Installed gutenprint
*Setup new printer with gutenprint
*Tried to print -- Failed, same result

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by speng (2009-01-20 22:29:05)

INCSlayer · 2009-01-18 07:59:22

i know that for my Epson DX4400 i need to do
chmod 666 /dev/usblp0
in order to get it to print you could try that

Last edited by INCSlayer (2009-01-18 07:59:35)

speng · 2009-01-19 22:44:17

I have found the error.

When it tries to run gnome-cups-manager, it returns:

Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash.

several times.

I have made a group called policykit and added my user to it, then installed policykit but it has made no effect.
Is there something I haven't done that I've forgot to do?

EDIT:

Ready: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed

This is what gnome-cups-manager shows in the properties of the printer.

Last edited by speng (2009-01-19 22:56:52)

kjon · 2009-01-19 23:00:21

a epson cx series?

Let's see. First of all, try to uninstall your printer. Afterwards, check you've installed cups, gutenprint and ghostscript. Finally, *restart* the printer spooler.
You can always check cups' status at http://localhost:631

And about chmoding 666... most time this isn't necesary, as long as the printer gets correctly detected by the spooler.

speng · 2009-01-19 23:04:09

I've installed Arch Linux twice on this machine, I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is due to the long error message I posted above.

Here is some more info, cups:631 reported:

Stylus-CX3200---CUPS+Gutenprint-v5.2.3 "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed"
    Description: Stylus-CX3200---CUPS+Gutenprint-v5.2.3
Location:
Printer Driver: Epson Stylus CX3200 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.3
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20CX3200

Why would pstoraster fail? hmm

test1000 · 2009-01-19 23:39:53

I would do what kjon suggested(and i recently had to remove/readd my epson stylus dx6000 so maybe that is related..)..

*set debuglevel to debug in cups.conf
*have something like $ tail -F -n 100 /var/log/cups/error_log
running in a terminal
*restart cups ( $ /etc/rc.d/cupsd restart)
*then go into localhost:631, remove printer & all jobs if they don't get removed automatically and add it again. then print a testpage from that interface and see if it works and/or if you get any errormsgs from the log

speng · 2009-01-20 00:11:49

Here are some errors:

E [20/Jan/2009:00:07:55 +0000] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported

When I tried to delete the printer:

D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] [CGI] /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi started - PID = 17530
I [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=17530)
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] cupsdSendCommand: 10 file=11
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] [CGI] admin.cgi started...
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] [CGI] http=0x22044a0
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] [CGI] op="delete-printer"...
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 13 from localhost:631 (IPv4)
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 13 POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] CUPS-Delete-Printer ipp://localhost/printers/Stylus-CX3200---CUPS%20Gutenprint-v5.2.3
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] CUPS-Delete-Printer client-error-not-found: The printer or class was not found.
D [20/Jan/2009:00:06:47 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 13 status_code=406 (client-error-not-found)

I'm certain this is some kind of permission error or the above error.
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash.

This is the one I mean, I cannot for any kind of solution for it on Google that works.
Any ideas? Print test page doesn't work after doing this.

More relevant info:

Using the gnome manager, first time I go into the list, I see the printer as ready, when i want to print a test page, it loads the ghostscript, then returns Ready: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed

I think that's the most important error of them all.
But what do I know? o_o

Last edited by speng (2009-01-20 00:20:38)

kjon · 2009-01-20 00:27:51

kjon ~  $  pacman -Qo /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster 
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster is owned by ghostscript 8.63-4

it looks like a ghostscript issue.

Did you delete your old printer and reinstalled it again?
Check permissions of your usblp%d devices, if any.

Last edited by kjon (2009-01-20 00:28:55)

speng · 2009-01-20 00:30:03

I would if it would let me.

http://localhost:631/printers/

-->

Delete Printer

-->

Error:

The printer or class was not found.

I also can't do it from gnome-cups-manager because of this:

Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

Permission are:

Owner: root, rw
Group: lp, rw

I am in the lp group.

Last edited by speng (2009-01-20 00:32:45)

kjon · 2009-01-20 00:31:44

then you got some ppd issue. Does cups-genppdupdate works for you?

speng · 2009-01-20 00:34:38

bash-3.2# cups-genppdupdate
Updated /etc/cups/ppd/Stylus-CX3200---CUPS+Gutenprint-v5.2.3.ppd using /usr/share/cups/model/C/stp-escp2-cx3200.5.2.ppd.gz
Updated 1 PPD file.Restart cupsd for the changes to take effect.
bash-3.2# /etc/rc.d/cups restart
:: Stopping CUPS Daemon                                                  [DONE] 
:: Starting CUPS Daemon                                                  [DONE] 
bash-3.2#

Still the same.

bash-3.2# gnome-cups-manager

(gnome-cups-manager:3263): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
None of the authentication protocols specified are supported.

** (gnome-cups-manager:3263): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (gnome-cups-manager:3263): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (gnome-cups-manager:3263): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (gnome-cups-manager:3263): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (gnome-cups-manager:3263): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (gnome-cups-manager:3263): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (gnome-cups-manager:3263): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (gnome-cups-manager:3263): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

Hmm. What does this mean?

Last edited by speng (2009-01-20 00:37:29)

kjon · 2009-01-20 00:40:15

I would recommend to reinstall cups. But, delete it with

Pacman -Rsscn cups

Then, reinstall it as usual (cups+ghostscript+gutenprint).

I hope this works...

speng · 2009-01-20 00:43:49

Ready: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed

Same old error.

There must be something I've done wrong...

Could it have something to do with my hosts.deny file?

  GNU nano 2.0.9            File: /etc/hosts.deny                               

#
# /etc/hosts.deny
#

ALL: ALL: DENY

# End of file

It was like this by default.

Last edited by speng (2009-01-20 00:49:13)

kjon · 2009-01-20 00:49:04

I don't know then. I manage everything from localhost:631, since I'm a xfce user. I don't know if you're using a fronend or you're _directly_ speaking to cups (using its web interface). Unfortunately, all my pstoraster issues were related to a wrong ghostscript installation. I really don't know what's wrong with your system. I'm sorry.

speng · 2009-01-20 00:51:05

Thanks a lot for your help.

I'm sure someone will have encountered this problem before.
For future reference, I used both gnome-cups-manager (frontend) and localhost:631 both with the same results.

kjon · 2009-01-20 00:54:57

wait a moment!
I saw your /etc/host.deny. Don't you have a entry

cupsd: ALL

on your /etc/hosts.allow?

speng · 2009-01-20 01:11:13

Nope, I added it now (it was completely empty) and rebooted, didn't make a difference. Am I supposed to add anything else as well?

kjon · 2009-01-20 01:18:40

not really... You really exhaused all my ideas... Sorry pal. I ran out of hints!

speng · 2009-01-20 01:28:13

Errr...

Erm.

It prints out of firefox.
What the hell is going on.

speng · 2009-01-20 18:10:40

I've identified this to be a permission problem, or some sort of bug maybe?

I can print perfectly from any application, but I can't print a test page from the cups page.
Pstoraster simply fails.

Also, when trying to gain admin rights to access the app, I get this:

Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash.

This must be what is giving me these errors!

test1000 · 2009-01-20 21:02:41

hmm. iv'e had that one before.. try reinstalling all of gnome and/or delete ~.gnome* ~.config/gnomerelated

speng · 2009-01-20 22:08:22

I renamed everything gnome related, no result.
I made a new user and put it in groups:

users
lp
storage
optical
wheel

Same old error.

It's not only this program that gives me the error, others do it as well.
What on earth is ORBiT?

EDIT: This thread will continue in the "Desktop Environments" section. This thread is no longer relevant to my problem as I can now print, but not within GNOME.

Thanks everyone!

Last edited by speng (2009-01-20 22:22:48)

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#1 2009-01-17 22:16:20

[SOLVED]Epson CX3200 + cups + gutenprint

#2 2009-01-18 07:59:22

Re: [SOLVED]Epson CX3200 + cups + gutenprint

#3 2009-01-19 22:44:17

Re: [SOLVED]Epson CX3200 + cups + gutenprint

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