Ubuntu
cups package

impossible to print

Bug #350812 reported by lecakeseb on 2009-03-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #680628: Unable to print a document with evince, works correctly with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cups (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

When i try to print a pdf file, i can't do it and the message "to many failed attempts" appears. I use cups to print and the printer is on my whife's XP pc.

I can print with xpdf.

Ubuntu 8.10
Evince 2.24.1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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lecakeseb (lecakeseb) wrote on 2009-03-29:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (32.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (775 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2009-03-29

affects:

evince (Ubuntu) → cups (Ubuntu)

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lecakeseb (lecakeseb) wrote on 2009-03-29: Re: [Bug 350812] Re: impossible to print

Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> ** Package changed: evince (Ubuntu) => cups (Ubuntu)
>
>
What does it mean ?

I don't understand... :-\

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote on 2009-08-07:

Please check your /etc/cups/printers.conf file, does it have the following line in it?
AuthInfoRequired username,password
Try changing it to:
AuthInfoRequired none