Parallel Printer - a) difficult to configure, b) didn't work until sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/backend
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cups
a) The System/
b) Then it still didn't work until it occurred to me to check the permissions of the file in the error report (/usr/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 5 15:35:24 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lpstat:
device for Canon-BJ-10e: parallel:/dev/lp0
device for PDF: cups-pdf:/
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Latitude D600
Package: cups 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1
Papersize: a4
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
Socket 1:
product info: "O2Micro", "SmartCardBus Reader", "V1.0", ""
manfid: 0xffff, 0x0001
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
Socket 1:
5.0V 16-bit PC Card
Subdevice 0 (function 0) [unbound]
PpdFiles:
Canon-BJ-10e: Canon BJ-10e Foomatic/bj10e (recommended)
PDF: Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: cups
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(polkit-
(nautilus:1786): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
dmi.bios.date: 06/29/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A16
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComp
dmi.product.name: Latitude D600
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
It looks like indeed the parallel port is no longer shown as a connection option. What makes this worse is that it makes it completely impossible to add parallel-port printers via the web interface.