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jelly

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 716

Epson color 480 doesn't print

Hi,

i got a free printer, and i have installed the drivers for it. But now i have a strange problem when it print with openoffice it works:) but when i want to print a test page with the gnome printer utility or @ http://localhost:631/ i get this error :

(/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster) stopped with status 1!

I have googled but haven't found any clue's someone here know anything about this error?

tail /var/log/messages/log output

 ppdev0: unregistered pardevice
ppdev0: registered pardevice

lpinfo -v

 network socket
network beh
direct hpfax
direct hp
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct scsi
network smb

To make it worse it get this gnome error when adding a printer:

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-cups-add. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

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.)

Last edited by jelly (2008-12-21 22:08:16)

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dotfiles

badger101101

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Registered: 2008-03-27

Posts: 20

Re: Epson color 480 doesn't print

No takers on this?  I'm having the same error.