system-config-printer not writing configuration ?

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Tue Jul 19 14:04:33 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:08:59AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> I am running 64 bit Fedora Core 4, fully updated as of this morning. I am 
> trying to set up printer, but whenever I try to print test page, I got the 
> message:
> 
> "There was a problem sending CUPS test page to "<queue name>" queue:
> 
> lpr: error - unable to print file: client-error-not-found"
> 
> This happens for all the printer that I setup, which are:
> 1. HP Laserjet on the network (using Jetdirect)
> 2. IPP Printer on another Redhat machine
> 3. Samba printer on another windows machine. 
> 
> When I try to check /etc/cups/printers.conf, i found out that it seems no 
> device is configured there. 
> ]# grep URI /etc/cups/printers.conf 
> # DeviceURI: the device URI for this printer.
> #DeviceURI parallel:/dev/plp
> #DeviceURI serial:/dev/ttyd1?baud=38400+size=8+parity=none+flow=soft
> ...

What does this command say (run it as root)?:

/usr/sbin/printconf-backend --force-rebuild

Tim.
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