cups cannot connect to printserver in Quantal

[Dirk Seidel]

I have configured cups to use a printserver in ~/.cups/client.conf:
ServerName 141.xxx.xxx.xxx

Everything worked fine in Precise with cups 1.5. Since my upgrade to Quantal with cups 1.6.1, I am unable to print. I get
dirk@gondor:~> lpstat
lpstat: Bad Request

[Magnum (magnum-pestilenz)]

Same here. Semms that dthe cups-server is too old:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30975

[Mauricio Araya (marays)]

Same problem here. Unfortunately I cannot downgrade cups from 12.10, so this issue es critical in the sense that I have no control of the print server. If this problem is not fixed soon, I will be forced to come back to the 12.04 LTS by a fresh installation.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mauricio Araya (marays)]

Just for adding some more data, the errorlog is mute, and here is the strace of lpstat

[Mauricio Araya (marays)]

Digging a little bit in the link https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30975 it seems that the problem is just that the default IPP version has changed to 2.0 in cups 1.6. My strace confirms that, so i guess that the solution is to find a way to configure cups to use the IPP version 1.1. Unfortunately, this was changed in the code of libcups2, and I do not find how to modify this in a config file like cupsd.conf.

[Ken Kleiner (ken-kleiner)]

Any changes on this? Having this problem with Linux Mint 14...thanks....

[Magnum (magnum-pestilenz)]

@Ken Kleiner
As Mauricio said, this is a change in the IPP-Version; not a bug. So i do not think, that this will change in the future. One has to have the same IPP-version on all clients and the server.