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I tried to set up a PDF printer whilst offline yesterday, and the Printing system panel came up with everything greyed out and unclickable.
I tried launching cupsd every which way, but always "Child exited with value 1" or some such.
Easy installation instructions to get this working again would be much appreciated 
(Don't mind a complete reinstall, as I can do no damage to the printing system - haha)
bump - printing still broken - tried reinstalling all cups stuff, and foomatic etc. but no worky
I have a phobia of printers, a long standing issue from my days as a tech support guy. This is not much help to you, I know, sorry. The printing system is something that needs working on. Apparently it can be hit 'n' miss at times 
Hopefully someone with a little more experience with this kind of thing will be able to suggest something.
Thanks Core,
I believe that there is no print system selector when you run xfce-settings-show. I believe I saw this icon in 8.04.02, so interesting dropout!
The print system worked perfectly for the last version, and I have a backup of all my files from the last version, so I may simply reinstall the last version (8.04.02) (d*mn bleeding edge!).
Last edited by themacmeister (2008-11-28 05:20:56)
I had a similar problem. This solution may work for you.
Have a look at the logs var/log/cups. In here I found this type of entry
"/etc/cups/ssl/server.crt" is a bad symlink - No such file or directoryInspection of the contents of /etc/cups/ssl showed two broken links being server.crt and server.key. I trashed both of these links and then cups started without problem.
sudo /etc/init.d/cups startLast edited by MarvinSuggs (2008-11-29 13:09:39)
Had the exact same issue with CUPS failing to start, omns workaround fixes it beatifully. sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart and Bob's your uncle!
I also had another issue once cups was up and running with the cups-pdf driver. It would fail whenever I tried to use the PDF printer.
The workaround was to make sure that 'cups-pdf' and the 'cups-driver-gutenprint' packages were both installed and then to make a folder called PDF in my home directory.
After that pdf printing jobs went straight into this new folder without error.
Last edited by MarvinSuggs (2008-11-29 13:15:06)
Thanks Omns, Cups was eating my lunch. Your post really helped.
Thanks Omns, Cups was eating my lunch. Your post really helped.
Your welcome
Wish I'd seen this before reinstalling ........gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Thanks
Wish I'd seen this before reinstalling ........gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Sorry about that. This really could do with fixing. I am giving it some serious thought.
swisscow wrote:Wish I'd seen this before reinstalling ........gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Sorry about that. This really could do with fixing. I am giving it some serious thought.
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Hey no worries, the rest is great!
Sorry about that.
It will help resolve your phobia 
It will help resolve your phobia
I very much doubt it!
I had a similar problem. This solution may work for you.
Have a look at the logs var/log/cups. In here I found this type of entry
"/etc/cups/ssl/server.crt" is a bad symlink - No such file or directoryInspection of the contents of /etc/cups/ssl showed two broken links being server.crt and server.key. I trashed both of these links and then cups started without problem.
sudo /etc/init.d/cups start
Another way is to generate the missing file by running (as root)
# cd /etc/ssl/certs/
# make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil Thankyou EYo. ^^This looks like a much better solution.
P.S. welcome to the forums
Another way is to generate the missing file by running (as root)
# cd /etc/ssl/certs/ # make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil
or you can:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ssl-cert
Thanks to all for the solutions.
It seems to be fixed in the latest Lite edition.
Thanks a lot. Running "sudo apt-get install --reinstall ssl-cert" did the trick.
Don't forget, after you do so to restart CUPS, as per Fab's instructions, above. It makes the difference between the solution seeming to be a solution or seeming to be a non-solution
I had the same problem. I deleted the bad symlinks an restarted CUPS but still had problems after that.
When I tried to add a new cups ipp printer (samsung printer on shared out by an 8.04 box) the system kept changing the IP address I'd enter in host to 'HP.' This shows up no where on my network. It's a total aberration. After it auto find the print and does the update I could go back in and replace HP with the ip address without it putting up a fight.
Clicking next The printer installed but triggered an error saying I needed to install rastertospl2 before I could use the printer. Not in the repos, not really anywhere. Just in a very similar bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/274829
Unable to install rastertospl2 I tried to use the printer and it seemed to work. Hopefully that will help someone else.
thanks omns and to all for the solution (s) ...
i am up and running .
omns fix worked perfectly for me too. Thanks!
Wow, that solved a problem I didn't even think I had.
Thanks
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