Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Trev · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 52 Location: New Zealand

Hi
I have been trying for a while to get my laser printer to work
I have tried a lot of the suggestions on the forum
I attach a .png screen dump showing what I get.
The set up is the same as I use with other Distributions on the same computer.
They all work fine . The message I get is "unable to open file "/var/spool/cups/d00012-001" -permission denied".
I cannot find what to do to change this permission?

I can ping the ip OK, also when I try the test print the printer starts up but no page comes out of it. Just the error message in Cups.
My cups version is 1.3.3 However when I enter cups-config --version I get version 1.1.23 returned. So don't know if there is any significance in that
Any suggestions would be very welcome
Thanks
Trev

Patriot · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734

Hmmm .....

I believe that you're running a puppy 4.1.x ... The cups-1.3.3 requires several modifications (which I couldn't remember anymore, I couldn't find my notes) to get it to work properly ... I suggest that you try cups-.1.3.11 which you can find here ...

If you do upgrade to cups-1.3.11, please uninstall cups-1.3.3 first ...

Rgds

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 27 Jan 2010, 22:23 Post subject:

The CUPS 1.3.3 you got from the repo is untested and should be avoided. Because it appears to be conflicting with the original CUPS 1.1.23, I'm not sure how to get rid of it short of reinstalling Puppy.

Because you have a network printer, there is value in getting a more recent version of CUPS, so I would get Patriot's 1.3.11. It may auto-detect your printer.

What printer driver are you using? Read here for info on installing Brother printers.

Trev · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 52 Location: New Zealand

Hi
Thanks for your swift response
I removed the 1.3.3 version and installed the 1.3.11 as suggested
All seemed to go OK
However I now cannot access the cups using either the printer setup wizard or the browser http://localhost:631/printers method. i just get the failed to connect message
I can still ping the address ok and also and I can access the printer maintenance by using the address http://192.168.1.65/printer/main.html

so any suggestions on this would ve much appreciated
Many thanks for your help
Trev

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 28 Jan 2010, 00:16 Post subject:

Open a terminal and type

Trev · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 52 Location: New Zealand

Hi thanks again for your reply
the following is the results of your instruction.
so this is obviously the area of problem
I did tick the box on the installation for the LibLdap
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
status
cups: scheduler is not running

start
/usr/sbin/cupsd: error while loading shared libraries: libldap-2.4.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thanks
Trev

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 28 Jan 2010, 07:51 Post subject:

This comment is on Patriot's installation page:

Trev · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 52 Location: New Zealand

Hi
My greatest thanks to both Patriot and rcrsn51
for all your help. I uninstalled and reinstalled cups 1.3.11 as suggested.
Pleased to say my printer is now up and running correctly
Many thanks again for all your help.
Trev