Hi,
I have been using cups on a slackware10 system under gnome for several
months without incident. From one day to the next the printer (epson
stylus color 740)stopped responding to all printing jobs except those
directly from gimp. When I tried to correct the problem from
localhost:631 I could not get to the admin page -- the system timed
out. Eventually I installed the most recent version of cups (1.1.21)
from slackware current. That allowed me to install and modify
printers, but not configure an existing printer. A typical error
message an unsuccessful job (from debug2 level) is:

E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10722 stopped with status 1!
E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] [Job 232] unable to open print file
"/var/spool/cups/d00232-001" - Permission denied
E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] [Job 232] No pages found!
E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10724 stopped with status 1!
E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10723 stopped with status 1!

The printer description at localhost:631/printers/... is:
Description: epson
Location: office
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
"No pages found!"
Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0

I occasionally install new software on my system and I may have
installed something that broke cups for me. I sure would like to know
how to get it fixed!
Thanks, jwc

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On 13 Oct 2004 18:06:20 GMT, jconnolly@kc.rr-dot-com.no-spam.invalid wrote:

> E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] [Job 232] unable to open print file
> "/var/spool/cups/d00232-001" - Permission denied

I don't know the answer but I'd suspect that may be your problem.
Look at the ownerships and permissions of that file and
compare them against the others.

Or alternatively just move that file into /tmp (just to get it out of
cups' spool directory), restart cups and try again.

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Stuart Winter
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| "Washing machines live longer with Calgon"

> jwcwrote:
Hi,
> I have been using cups on a slackware10 system under gnome for
several months without incident. From one day to the next the printer
(epson stylus color 740)stopped responding to all printing jobs except
those directly from gimp. When I tried to correct the problem from
localhost:631 I could not get to the admin page -- the system timed
out. Eventually I installed the most recent version of cups (1.1.21)
from slackware current. That allowed me to install and modify
printers, but not configure an existing printer. A typical error
message an unsuccessful job (from debug2 level) is:
>
> E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10722 stopped with status 1!
> E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] [Job 232] unable to open print file
"/var/spool/cups/d00232-001" - Permission denied
> E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] [Job 232] No pages found!
> E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10724 stopped with status 1!
> E [13/Oct/2004:11:57:28 -0500] PID 10723 stopped with status 1!
>
> The printer description at localhost:631/printers/... is:
> Description: epson
> Location: office
> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
> "No pages found!"
> Device URI: parallel:/dev/lp0
> Hi,
> I occasionally install new software on my system and I may have
installed something that broke cups for me. I sure would like to know
how to get it fixed!
> Thanks, jwc

I'm 'answering' my own post in case anyone else runs into this
problem. I eventually uninstalled cups and resinstalled the slack10
version from the cd. I also reinstalled the package containing
ghostscript, killed and restarted cupsd. That seems to have solved
the problem although i don't know why
Amen

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On 18 Oct 2004 17:45:59 GMT, jconnolly@kc.rr-dot-com.no-spam.invalid wrote:

> I'm 'answering' my own post in case anyone else runs into this
> problem. I eventually uninstalled cups and resinstalled the slack10
> version from the cd. I also reinstalled the package containing
> ghostscript, killed and restarted cupsd. That seems to have solved
> the problem although i don't know why

I meant to reply to this post but forgot!

mkdir -pm1770 /var/spool/cups/tmp
chown -R root.sys /var/spool/cups

That may also have fixed it for you.

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Stuart Winter
www.interlude.org.uk & www.armedslack.org
| "Washing machines live longer with Calgon"