Comment 14 for bug 132624

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alistairi (alistairi) wrote : Re: Gutsy Cannot Print to USB Printer

I'm terribly sorry, I made a mistake - that was syslog.0 I was looking at i.e. an old one, not syslog.

I rebooted my machine after today's updates and looked at /var/log/syslog and see the following:

Aug 30 10:23:43 localhost hal_lpadmin: Unable to connect to CUPS: 'httpConnectionEncrypt failed'. Is CUPS running?
Aug 30 10:23:43 localhost hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal_lpadmin", line 403, in main h = HalLpAdmin()
Aug 30 10:23:43 localhost hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal_lpadmin", line 377, in __init__ self.addPrinter()
Aug 30 10:23:43 localhost hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal_lpadmin", line 389, in addPrinter printer = HalPrinter()
Aug 30 10:23:43 localhost hal_lpadmin: File "/usr/lib/hal/scripts/hal_lpadmin", line 19, in __init__ os.exit (1)
Aug 30 10:23:43 localhost hal_lpadmin: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'exit'
Aug 30 10:23:43 localhost NetworkManager: <debug> [1188462223.877939] nm_hal_device_added(): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/
devices/usb_device_43d_78_18K670127073950_if0_printer_noserial').
Aug 30 10:23:44 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Aug 30 10:23:44 localhost gdm[4863]: WARNING: Server-Name »0« nicht gefunden. Standard-Server wird verwendet
Aug 30 10:23:45 localhost kernel: [ 87.611383] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
Aug 30 10:23:45 localhost kernel: [ 87.628979] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Aug 30 10:23:45 localhost kernel: [ 87.629843] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.27.0 20060524 on minor 0
Aug 30 10:23:45 localhost kernel: [ 88.088693] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Aug 30 10:23:45 localhost kernel: [ 88.253961] audit(1188462225.666:3): PERMITTING m access to /etc/passwd (cupsd(4914) profile /usr/sbin/cups
d active /usr/sbin/cupsd)
Aug 30 10:23:45 localhost kernel: [ 88.254398] audit(1188462225.666:4): PERMITTING m access to /etc/group (cupsd(4914) profile /usr/sbin/cupsd
 active /usr/sbin/cupsd)
Aug 30 10:23:45 localhost kernel: [ 88.255307] audit(1188462225.666:5): PERMITTING m access to /etc/group (cupsd(4914) profile /usr/sbin/cupsd
 active /usr/sbin/cupsd)
Aug 30 10:23:45 localhost kernel: [ 88.564307] audit(1188462225.974:6): PERMITTING w access to /dev/tty (cupsd(4914) profile /usr/sbin/cupsd a
ctive /usr/sbin/cupsd)

Printing still doesn't work though, even with the sudo aa-complain cupsd workaround again.

I attach today's CUPS error_log