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Barry Landy
May 7, 2012, 6:44:36 AM5/7/12
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I have run Ecups for a USB attached photosmart for ages and suddenly I
cannot connect to it. Apart from not printing ( :-) ) when I try to
connect to localhost:631 to see what is wrong I am told that firefox
cannot connect to the server.
I have tried
a) reverting to an older version of the USB suite (I am running 183)
b) reverting to an older Firefox (I am running the ESR 10.0.4 and
reverted to 10.0.2)
c) reinstalling Ecups from ecups003.wpi
none of which have helped.
I have run the ESB.EXE from backend which shows that my printer is
connected (and it works from Windows).
Any suggestions of what to try?
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cannot connect to it. Apart from not printing ( :-) ) when I try to
connect to localhost:631 to see what is wrong I am told that firefox
cannot connect to the server.
I have tried
a) reverting to an older version of the USB suite (I am running 183)
b) reverting to an older Firefox (I am running the ESR 10.0.4 and
reverted to 10.0.2)
c) reinstalling Ecups from ecups003.wpi
none of which have helped.
I have run the ESB.EXE from backend which shows that my printer is
connected (and it works from Windows).
Any suggestions of what to try?
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192, Gilbert Road, Cambridge CB4 3PB
Rodney Pont
May 7, 2012, 7:16:24 AM5/7/12
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On Mon, 7 May 2012 11:44:36 +0100, Barry Landy wrote:
>I have run Ecups for a USB attached photosmart for ages and suddenly I
>cannot connect to it. Apart from not printing ( :-) ) when I try to
>connect to localhost:631 to see what is wrong I am told that firefox
>cannot connect to the server.
Is the CUPS server, \cups\sbin\cuspd.exe running?
>I have run Ecups for a USB attached photosmart for ages and suddenly I
>cannot connect to it. Apart from not printing ( :-) ) when I try to
>connect to localhost:631 to see what is wrong I am told that firefox
>cannot connect to the server.
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Peter Brown
May 7, 2012, 10:55:53 AM5/7/12
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Hi Barry
Barry Landy wrote:
> I have run Ecups for a USB attached photosmart for ages and suddenly I
> cannot connect to it. Apart from not printing ( :-) ) when I try to
> connect to localhost:631 to see what is wrong I am told that firefox
> cannot connect to the server.
>
> I have tried
>
> a) reverting to an older version of the USB suite (I am running 183)
> b) reverting to an older Firefox (I am running the ESR 10.0.4 and
> reverted to 10.0.2)
> c) reinstalling Ecups from ecups003.wpi
>
> none of which have helped.
>
> I have run the ESB.EXE from backend which shows that my printer is
> connected (and it works from Windows).
>
> Any suggestions of what to try?
>
Check that cupsd.exe is running - "cannot connect to the server" is an
indication that it probably is not.
you may also want to consider updating from the ecups003 package as that
was based on cups139 and cups148 is the current build
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort
Regards
Pete
Barry Landy wrote:
> I have run Ecups for a USB attached photosmart for ages and suddenly I
> cannot connect to it. Apart from not printing ( :-) ) when I try to
> connect to localhost:631 to see what is wrong I am told that firefox
> cannot connect to the server.
>
> I have tried
>
> a) reverting to an older version of the USB suite (I am running 183)
> b) reverting to an older Firefox (I am running the ESR 10.0.4 and
> reverted to 10.0.2)
> c) reinstalling Ecups from ecups003.wpi
>
> none of which have helped.
>
> I have run the ESB.EXE from backend which shows that my printer is
> connected (and it works from Windows).
>
> Any suggestions of what to try?
>
indication that it probably is not.
you may also want to consider updating from the ecups003 package as that
was based on cups139 and cups148 is the current build
http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort
Regards
Pete
Barry Landy
May 7, 2012, 11:12:57 AM5/7/12
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On Mon, 7 May 2012, Peter Brown wrote:
:>Hi Barry
StARTUP so it should be running.
trying to start it manually it just dies with no error message.
Anyway to find out what it is complaining about.
:>
:>you may also want to consider updating from the ecups003 package as that was
:>
good idea.
Where was this publicised?
:>Hi Barry
:>
:>Barry Landy wrote:
:>> I have run Ecups for a USB attached photosmart for ages and suddenly I
:>> cannot connect to it. Apart from not printing ( :-) ) when I try to
:>> connect to localhost:631 to see what is wrong I am told that firefox
:>> cannot connect to the server.
:>>
:>> I have tried
:>>
:>> a) reverting to an older version of the USB suite (I am running 183)
:>> b) reverting to an older Firefox (I am running the ESR 10.0.4 and
:>> reverted to 10.0.2)
:>> c) reinstalling Ecups from ecups003.wpi
:>>
:>> none of which have helped.
:>>
:>> I have run the ESB.EXE from backend which shows that my printer is
:>> connected (and it works from Windows).
:>>
:>> Any suggestions of what to try?
:>>
:>
:>
:>
:>Check that cupsd.exe is running - "cannot connect to the server" is an
:>indication that it probably is not.
good thinking. It is not running. However the call to run it is in
:>Barry Landy wrote:
:>> I have run Ecups for a USB attached photosmart for ages and suddenly I
:>> cannot connect to it. Apart from not printing ( :-) ) when I try to
:>> connect to localhost:631 to see what is wrong I am told that firefox
:>> cannot connect to the server.
:>>
:>> I have tried
:>>
:>> a) reverting to an older version of the USB suite (I am running 183)
:>> b) reverting to an older Firefox (I am running the ESR 10.0.4 and
:>> reverted to 10.0.2)
:>> c) reinstalling Ecups from ecups003.wpi
:>>
:>> none of which have helped.
:>>
:>> I have run the ESB.EXE from backend which shows that my printer is
:>> connected (and it works from Windows).
:>>
:>> Any suggestions of what to try?
:>>
:>
:>
:>
:>Check that cupsd.exe is running - "cannot connect to the server" is an
:>indication that it probably is not.
StARTUP so it should be running.
trying to start it manually it just dies with no error message.
Anyway to find out what it is complaining about.
:>
:>you may also want to consider updating from the ecups003 package as that was
:>
good idea.
Where was this publicised?
Barry Landy
May 7, 2012, 11:26:10 AM5/7/12
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On Mon, 7 May 2012, Peter Brown wrote:
:>Hi Barry
trying that I get
invalid package index 99 specified with REQUIRES attribute.
rbk...@earthlink.net
May 7, 2012, 12:34:50 PM5/7/12
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x:\cups\var\log\cups\error_log
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Barry Landy
May 7, 2012, 11:59:59 AM5/7/12
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On Mon, 7 May 2012, rbk...@earthlink.net wrote:
:>x:\cups\var\log\cups\error_log
:>
:>
:>
1) I have now installed 148 L apparently I have to choose which
components might work on my system (without too much information to
guide me).
2) I now see localhost:631 but do not get printing (though it was
working quite recently - days).
3) the above mentioned error log is full of stuff; not clear which is
diagnostic and which is a bad error.
eg
"/cups/var/run/cups/certs" is not a directory!
This seems to have appeared for the first time today )7 May) (which is
probably when Ecups stopped working) and is still present after the
both reinstalls (ir ecups3 and 149) (which might have been expected to
correct the problem)
Looking more closely: certs IS a directory .... !
it seems to have the -r attribute so I will take that off and see what
changes.
:>x:\cups\var\log\cups\error_log
:>
:>
1) I have now installed 148 L apparently I have to choose which
components might work on my system (without too much information to
guide me).
2) I now see localhost:631 but do not get printing (though it was
working quite recently - days).
3) the above mentioned error log is full of stuff; not clear which is
diagnostic and which is a bad error.
eg
"/cups/var/run/cups/certs" is not a directory!
This seems to have appeared for the first time today )7 May) (which is
probably when Ecups stopped working) and is still present after the
both reinstalls (ir ecups3 and 149) (which might have been expected to
correct the problem)
Looking more closely: certs IS a directory .... !
it seems to have the -r attribute so I will take that off and see what
changes.
rbk...@earthlink.net
May 7, 2012, 2:45:51 PM5/7/12
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Hi Barry,
Shutdown cupsd.exe, if it is running. Then delete the certs directory
and its contents. When you restart cupsd.exe, it will recreate the
certs directory, and it should be working after this. I ran into this
problem a couple of weeks ago, and this fixed it for me.
HTH
Ron
In <alpine.OS2.2.00.1205071650470.149@Barry>, on 05/07/12
Shutdown cupsd.exe, if it is running. Then delete the certs directory
and its contents. When you restart cupsd.exe, it will recreate the
certs directory, and it should be working after this. I ran into this
problem a couple of weeks ago, and this fixed it for me.
HTH
Ron
In <alpine.OS2.2.00.1205071650470.149@Barry>, on 05/07/12
Barry Landy
May 7, 2012, 5:51:13 PM5/7/12
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:>Hi Barry,
:>
:>Shutdown cupsd.exe, if it is running. Then delete the certs directory
:>and its contents. When you restart cupsd.exe, it will recreate the
:>certs directory, and it should be working after this. I ran into this
:>problem a couple of weeks ago, and this fixed it for me.
that worked - thanks
:>Shutdown cupsd.exe, if it is running. Then delete the certs directory
:>and its contents. When you restart cupsd.exe, it will recreate the
:>certs directory, and it should be working after this. I ran into this
:>problem a couple of weeks ago, and this fixed it for me.
Barry Landy
May 7, 2012, 5:53:52 PM5/7/12
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On Mon, 7 May 2012, Peter Brown wrote:
:>Hi Barry
I tried 148 and could not get it to work satisfactorily.
a) repeatedly trying mmaintenance operations it went "wating for
localhost" for eveer
b) failed to print a test page (said a banner page was not available)
c) trying to set up a new printer did not complete
so I decided to reinstall 139 and all is now OK.
Thanks for all those who gave advice.
I will try 148 or a newer CUPS some other time.
:>Hi Barry
a) repeatedly trying mmaintenance operations it went "wating for
localhost" for eveer
b) failed to print a test page (said a banner page was not available)
c) trying to set up a new printer did not complete
so I decided to reinstall 139 and all is now OK.
Thanks for all those who gave advice.
I will try 148 or a newer CUPS some other time.
Alex Taylor
May 18, 2012, 8:07:01 AM5/18/12
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On Mon, 7 May 2012 15:26:10 UTC, Barry Landy <bl10n...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> :>you may also want to consider updating from the ecups003 package as that
> :>was based on cups139 and cups148 is the current build
> :>http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort
>
> trying that I get
> invalid package index 99 specified with REQUIRES attribute.
That's my fault - I forgot to update a reference last time I built the
> :>you may also want to consider updating from the ecups003 package as that
> :>was based on cups139 and cups148 is the current build
> :>http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort
>
> trying that I get
> invalid package index 99 specified with REQUIRES attribute.
main CUPS WPI. It's trying to load package 99 from gutenprint-5_2_7.wpi
instead of gutenprint-5_2_7_1.wpi (sorry!)
There are two workarounds for that. Either:
- Make a copy of gutenprint-5_2_7_1.wpi called gutenprint-5_2_7.wpi in the
same directory before starting the install
or
- Don't install gutenprint from the CUPS package; instead, deselect it and
then install it separately afterwards by running gutenprint-5_2_7_1.wpi
--
Alex Taylor
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