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os:linux:gentoo:fixkdeprint [2007/05/14 20:43] (current) – created crustymonkey
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 +====== 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'':
 +<code |/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
 +</code>
 +
 +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.
 +<code>
 +# emerge =net-print/cups-1.1.23-r8
 +# etc-update
 +<selected -5>
 +# /etc/init.d/cupsd restart
 +</code>
 +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.
 +<code>
 +# mkdir /var/spool/cups
 +# chmod 775 /var/spool/cups
 +# chgrp lp /var/spool/cups
 +</code>
 +
 +~~DISCUSSION~~
os/linux/gentoo/fixkdeprint.txt · Last modified: 2007/05/14 20:43 by crustymonkey