For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall
("don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was" says my sympathetic
girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some
time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so
I stripped everything off and re-installed lprng. I then used apsfilter
to configure things, the apsfilter printed a perfect test page but
when I used lpr....nothing! I tried with printtool which printed a
test ascii direct to the port but under lpr the printer muttered a
bit and then stopped. lpq -L gives me the following
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpq -L
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queue: no printable jobs in queue
Status: accounting at start at 14:35:56.401
Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 14:35:56.452
Status: printing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:56.468
Status: printing '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' starting OF at 14:35:56.468
Status: printing data file 'dfA779debian', size 42 at 14:35:56.468
Status: IF filter finished at 14:35:57.631
Status: printing done '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:57.631
Status: accounting at end at 14:35:57.631
Status: finished '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.631
Status: subserver pid 5782 exit status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.636
Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' printed at
14:35:57.637
Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 14:35:57.639
I can't see much wrong with the permissions-I'm currently operating
root.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/spool/lpd
total 24
drwx------ 2 daemon lp 4096 Jul 2 14:53 lp
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Jul 2 11:54
stcolor-a4-ascii-color
debian:/home/bernard# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp
total 28
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 1602 Jul 2 14:53 acct
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 control.lp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root lp 35 Jul 2 13:56 filter ->
/usr/share/printtool//master-filter
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 187 Jul 2 13:56 general.cfg
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 log
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 5 Jul 2 14:53 lp
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 346 Jul 2 13:56 postscript.cfg
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 status
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 2847 Jul 2 14:53 status.lp
-rw------- 1 daemon lp 146 Jul 2 13:56 textonly.cfg
-rw------- 1 daemon lp
I would be pathetically crawlingly grateful to anybody who could assist. There
is
absolutely no shortage of additional information-three days worth-if required.
Bernard Pack
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"I have a perfectly stable system, as in,'we've cut him from
the wreck and given him four pints of blood and his condition
is stable'"
