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shep

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Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 33

Cups 1.4 upgrade

I may be the first to notice as I just built a new system and upgraded to cups prior to adding a network printer.

The new cups adminstration web interface looks very nice but is extremely slow and apparently prefers to use php-cgi if available.  A search indicates that php-cgi
is deprecated in Arch

Web Interface

  10. Look-n-feel; the web interface has been given a new look.
  11. PHP support; the "php-cgi" program is used, when available, to process PHP pages in the CUPS web interface.
  12. Printer configuration; improvements have been made to the add and modify printer pages.
  13. Printer options; the Set Default Options page now provides a "query" button that queries the default and installed options from the printer.
  14. Printer sharing; the "share printer" and "unshare printer" buttons are now only shown when printer sharing is enabled in the scheduler.
  15. Security; the web interface has been updated to support authentication for printing of test pages and RSS subscription operations.
  16. Server settings; the Administration page now provides access to common "advanced" server settings.

When I attempt to add a new network printer (via parallel print server) using a root password the browser just keeps "waiting for localhost".

My /etc/hosts file is set up per the arch wiki:

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>   <hostname.domain.org>   <hostname>
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain   localhost Bear

# End of file

My cups log shows

localhost - - [12/Oct/2009:09:33:47 -0700] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 415 CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found
localhost - - [12/Oct/2009:10:07:42 -0700] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 415 CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found

I had no problems with 1.3* version of cups.  Any suggestions appreciated

Last edited by shep (2009-10-15 17:24:52)

shep

Member

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 33

Re: Cups 1.4 upgrade

A re-boot seemed to have fixed the problem although I had manually restarted the cups server previously

archnub

Member

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 14

Re: Cups 1.4 upgrade

I have an Epson CX3200 USB Printer and it has now stopped working after the upgrade as well. I cant find any specific printer errors here, but it looks more like a USB issue than anything else, because the print properties sticks with the "Waiting for device to become available" message.

Infin1ty

Member

From: Israel

Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 42

Re: Cups 1.4 upgrade

I have an Epson CX3200 USB Printer and it has now stopped working after the upgrade as well. I cant find any specific printer errors here, but it looks more like a USB issue than anything else, because the print properties sticks with the "Waiting for device to become available" message.

did you make sure you don't have "usblp" module loaded?

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,642

Re: Cups 1.4 upgrade

you need "lp" group permisson for your printer usb device. that's quiet often broken with multi function devices. then you will require a custom udev rule.

archnub

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Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 14

Re: Cups 1.4 upgrade

I dont have usblp loaded and permissions for lp are set to 0655, but the problem persists. Dont know how to set custom udev rules.

archnub

Member

Registered: 2009-07-02

Posts: 14

Re: Cups 1.4 upgrade

Well, I went for the easy fix and downgraded to previous cups, libcups, and ghostscript and told pacman to ignore them for upgrades. All works ducky now.

jt512

Member

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 262

Re: Cups 1.4 upgrade

Dont know how to set custom udev rules.

See my post here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82489
Jay