OK lets think through this once more. Your original $ lpstat -h localhost -t output although it shows your gray-deskjet as the default destination, it does not show that the other printer is paused.Try again to manually set the default printer (for all users) and see if it picks it up: # lpoptions -d gray-deskjet May be worth re-naming ~/.lpoptions file if it exists to make sure that only the /etc/cups/lpoptions are read by lp on each occasion. Then stop the pdfprt (not sure how you do this from the command line, I use the GUI). Check that pdfprt is stopped, gray-deskjet is idle accepting jobs and is the default printer using $ lpststat -h localhost -t. Then try to send something to the printer using lp, e.g. lp foo.txt. My guess is that for some reason your pdfprt is being picked up and its address cups-pdf:/ is not correct? HTH -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
I already setup pdfprt to be paused.
Then I checked for ~/.lpoptions as a normal user, and didn't find it.
It appeared that /etc/cups/lpoptions still pointed to the old printer
(neither pdfprt, nor gray-deskjet).
So I tried to do:
# lpoptions -d gray-deskjet
lpoptions: Unknown printer or class!
Then I tried 'lpoptions -h localhost -d gray-deskjet' and it worked.
This changed the default printer in /etc/cups/lpoptions.
However, lpstat still says it cannot connect to server, and for
example enscripting a text file fails as well:
$ enscript todo
lpr: error - scheduler not responding!
[ 1 pages * 1 copy ] sent to printer
$ enscript -P gray-deskjet todo
lpr: error - unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable
[ 1 pages * 1 copy ] sent to gray-deskjet
$ enscript -d gray-deskjet todo
lpr: error - unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable
[ 1 pages * 1 copy ] sent to gray-deskjet
In fact, I just deleted pdfprt, and the situation still has not
changed (ever after restarting cupsd).
I just ran lpstat with strace, and I notices something that I
suspected all along, it tries to connect to my old print server:
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631),
sin_addr=inet_addr("10.1.1.4")}, 16) = -1 EHOSTUNREACH (No route to
host)
I hope no-one minds if attach the whole output from strace here.
lpstat.out
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