[sclug] massive cups/lprng demo required!

[Andrew Sharp]

please help!

I have beeen doing an LFS project and I have been fighting for weeks to get my 
hewlett packard dj510 to print a full test page from CUPS or to use LPRng 
instead. CUPS cannot find Ghostscript and reports a unrecoverable ghostscript 
error* (ESPGhostscript 7.07 installed) as an excuse for not printing. It has 
got to the stage where I need talking through it stage by stage or even a 
personal visit to show what is going wrong. For LPRng, I need help devising a 
printcap to get all the functionality and access ghostscript properly.

*CUPS error log:
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] [Job 12] Dictionary stack:
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] [Job 12] --dict:1051/1417(ro)(G)--   
--dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:87/200(L)--   --dict:17/17(ro)(G)--   
--dict:1051/1417(ro)(G)--
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] [Job 12] Current allocation mode is local
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] [Job 12] Last OS error: 2
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] [Job 12] ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable 
error, exit code 1
E [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] PID 205 stopped with status 1!
E [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] PID 204 stopped with status 1!
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] [Job 12] 0 %%EOF
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] [Job 12] Saw EOF!
E [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] [Job 12] No pages found!
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] UpdateJob: job 12, file 0 is complete.
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] CancelJob: id = 12
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] StopJob: id = 12, force = 0
D [23/Jul/2004:11:24:11 +0100] StopJob: printer state is 3
E [23/Jul/2004:11:36:52 +0100] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM.
D [23/Jul/2004:11:36:52 +0100] StopListening: closing all listen sockets.
D [23/Jul/2004:11:36:52 +0100] PauseListening: clearing input bits...
I [23/Jul/2004:18:29:23 +0100] Listening to 0:631


I am a coping dyslexic and have trouble finding and processing information, so 
the LFS advice of RTFMs is not adequate advice for me, especially in this 
instance. 

I can be found in a chatroom:
irc.linuxfromscratch.org  (the typical 6667 setting)
/join #LFS-support 
look for nickname Tizer 

if you have the time to help. I have two LFS systems I can boot, one using 
LPRng and one with CUPS, so let me know your preferential field of expertise!

For the LFSers out there, the CUPS system is an X term with no other X 
environment installed and OpenOffice.org added for test printing.
LPRng will be running in a KDE 3.2 environment or console if required. Books 
LFS5.0 and BLFS 5.0 have been the main benchmarks for installed software 
(except KDE).

Printing is the one thing I don't 'get' and is the only thing that is stopping 
me from using Windows or SuSE 8.2 instead!

Andrew Sharp
-- 
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