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Dingo · Last edited by Dingo on Wed 17 Jun 2009, 14:02; edited 1 time in total

Today Tried to print a my script with Jedit (in Puppy 3.01)

settled options, clicked but nothing happens

Few minutes ago, tried to print to pdf, few pages from ODT doc via OpenOffice... nothing also in this case

So, it seems CUPS-PDF suddenly dont't works more

what do you think it's happened?

more info about problem:

When I try to print from a pdf viewer like epdfview or Foxit or Adobe Reader, no dialog asking where I want save resulting file is showed

looking for in /var/spool/, makes me able to view a .ps file, that is the output of current job

disciple · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 04:24 Post subject:

Maybe the printer setup has broken somehow. But also maybe the printer has just been "stopped", so go to the CUPS control panel and start it again. You may want to delete the spooled files first, in case something strange with one of them caused the printer to stop.

Dingo · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 07:42 Post subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 08:38 Post subject:

Here are some things to try:

There may be some clues in the CUPS error logs. Go to /etc/cups and open the file cupsd.conf. Find the line "LogLevel info" and change it to "LogLevel debug".

Restart CUPS with "/etc/init.d/cups restart". Send a document to the PDF writer. Go to /var/cups/log and open the error_log file. Start at the bottom and work your way up looking for error messages.

The PDF writer is a script in the folder /usr/lib/cups/backend. You can open it as text and check out the other executables that it calls, like "ps2pdf". However, it looks like the real work is done by "gs".

There was a posting a while back from someone whose printing had failed. He eventually concluded that some other program he had installed had changed gs. But I can't find it now.

Dingo · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 09:27 Post subject:

this is error log (attached as txt) after:

modified Longlevel info to LongLevel debug
restarted cups

PDF-writer script, located in /usr/lib/cups/backend/ seems call only ps2pdf but ps2pdf, as you said, uses ghostscript to work

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 10:18 Post subject:

Well, according to the CUPS error log, everything went fine. But the PDF-writer backend also writes to the system error log in /var/log/messages so I would look there next.

Also, I would try deleting the hidden config file /root/.pdfwriter.conf. Maybe it has gotten corrupted and is stopping things.

Dingo · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 10:45 Post subject:

yes, PDF-writer log is interesting to read

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:00 Post subject:

Dingo · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:09 Post subject:

Yes, well said! only I don't want disturb , at line 134 I read:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:19 Post subject:

If the new hostname is Dingo instead of puppypc then that's causing the error. If you really want to stay with Dingo, the easiest fix might be to comment out Line 135 (the exit 0).

Dingo · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:24 Post subject:

In fact doing so, all is now fully working! Hurra for you! Very Happy

(a great progress in my knowledge of CUPS-printing it's happened today), thanks again! Now I think I must help massively puppy communiti to give help after a lot of help received

I never will say (this problem has no solutions, only: I have yet found)

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 11:29 Post subject:

Glad to help. That was fun.

disciple · Posted: Thu 18 Jun 2009, 04:15 Post subject:

FWIW IIRC it will work if you have that .Xauthority file, even if it is blank.

Roy · Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Posts: 436

disciple,

Just for clarification in case I misunderstood somehow, .Xauthority is a file and not a directory, right?

There was a discussion on this page http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51268 concerning a sethostname-1.0.pet and its ability to function correctly. My recent suggestion was to simply incorporate a blank /root/.Xauthority file into the pet, based on this thread (and your input).

Unfortunately, I have no access to a printer or experience building dot-pets to test my own suggestion. Still, something I would like to see for others.

-Roy

disciple · Posted: Mon 18 Jan 2010, 01:44 Post subject:

Yes, it is a file and for this can be blank.