On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:42:05 -0700, Mollie McGee wrote: > The CUPS printing system just quit after an update to Stable via > security.debian.org .. "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed". > > I have since purged and re-installed cups, cups-driver-gutenprint, > cupsys, ghostscript and udev, downgraded them to versions from Lenny > 5.0 but it still doesn't work. > > Any clues appreciated, many thanks. > > /var/log/cups/error_log has several odd entries: > > E [02/Oct/2009:10:12:43 -0700] [CGI] Unable to send 46 bytes to > 10.255.255.255: Operation not permitted > E [02/Oct/2009:10:13:17 -0700] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized > E [02/Oct/2009:10:13:26 -0700] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized > E [02/Oct/2009:10:13:37 -0700] PID 10366 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster) > stopped with status 1! > E [02/Oct/2009:10:13:37 -0700] [Job 2] Job stopped due to filter errors. > E [02/Oct/2009:10:13:45 -0700] Purge-Jobs: Unauthorized > E [02/Oct/2009:10:13:54 -0700] Purge-Jobs: Unauthorized
Make sure that you are still a member of the lp group (and the lpadmin group if you want to change the cups configuration without using the root account). I think that you probably have an incompatible mix of versions for some relevant packages; please post the output of: dpkg -l cups\* libcups\* ghostscript\* libgs? gs-\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org