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os:linux:gentoo:fixkdeprint

Fix KDE Print

Intro

This obviously won't apply to everyone, but I have been using KDE Print within the KDE control center for eons without any problems until a recent install I did at work. It appears that KDE Print was not working with the latest version of CUPS. Personally, I hate printing in general, and especially from within Linux. I really didn't want to delve too far into this, so here's the workaround I managed to straighten out.

The Errors

Whenever I would try to connect to the CUPS server from within KDE Print, I would get an error saying that it couldn't connect to the CUPS server. I checked netstat and CUPS was listening on port 631 just like it is supposed to. I checked to make sure a unix socket was being created in /var/run/cups/ and sure enough it was. Everything seemed as if it should have been working just fine. I was receiving the following error in /var/log/cups/access_log:

localhost - - [14/May/2007:15:06:22 -0500] "POST /printers/ HTTP/1.1" 200 112 CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found

I couldn't find much online at all, but here's what I did.

The Fix

Mainly, the fix was simply to downgrade CUPS. You might be able to go with a higher revision than what I went with here, but I played it safe.

The version of CUPS that I was having problems with was 1.2.9 and I decided to drop it a whole minor revision to 1.1.23-r8 since that was the oldest version available.

# emerge =net-print/cups-1.1.23-r8
# etc-update
<selected -5>
# /etc/init.d/cupsd restart

And sure enough, that fixed that problem. Then I received a different error from KDE Print after that, “client-error-request-value-too-long”. A little bit of searching and I found a site with a couple of suggestions and the first one worked for me. The directory /var/spool/cups did not exist. I created it and set the appropriate permissions on it and I was good to go after that.

# mkdir /var/spool/cups
# chmod 775 /var/spool/cups
# chgrp lp /var/spool/cups

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os/linux/gentoo/fixkdeprint.txt · Last modified: 2007/05/14 20:43 by crustymonkey