cups produces error on attempt to print test page
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cups
Actions taken:
1. point browser to localhost:631
2. select Printers | Manage Printers
3. select the physical printer (as opposed to the Virtual PDF Printer)
4. select Maintenance | Print Self Test Page
Expected: printer issues the well-known CUPS test page
Observed: error message: Unsupported format 'application/
Background:
I have been upgrading to new Kubuntu versions on this four or five-year old machine ever since I bought it. I have space for three releases at any one time. The home directory is in its own partition and I have always left it intact. I was suffering several small but infuriating functionality problems that drew zero response from several increasingly plaintive postings. I suspected cruft in my "dot files" (configuration files). I did a "bare metal" reinstall of both the OS and my own user partition, copying back only config directories that contained useful data, as opposed to config settings, e.g. ~/.cddb and ~/.thumbnails.
I provide this detail because the previous Lucid Lynx instance on this machine --- as well as the karmic and jaunty releases --- have always printed the CUPS test page uneventfully. It is therefore puzzling to receive this error on the "cleanest" reinstall that I have done in years.
OT: the cruft removal exercise does, however, seem to have resolved the other functionality problems.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 21 03:42:29 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/
Lpstat:
device for HPLaserJet4L: dnssd:/
device for VirtualPDFPrinter: cups-pdf:/
MachineType: MICRO-STAR INC. MS-6580
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: cups 1.4.2-6
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
HPLaserJet4L: HP LaserJet 4L Foomatic/ljet4 (recommended)
VirtualPDFPrinter: Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/Postscript (recommended)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: cups
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-11-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 05/19/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V3.7 0
dmi.board.name: MS-6580
dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INC.
dmi.board.version: 20A
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Uknown Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: MS-6580
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INC.
Changed in system-config-printer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
This bug appears to be related to --- although, in my view, not a duplicate of --- Bug #428065