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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.
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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.
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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
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