installing a HP Photosmart 7350 usb printer

[Ian Smith]

[Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 106, Issue 8]

 > System : 5.4-REL-#6
 > 
 > I've installed cups (via ports) and downloaded the .ppd file from 
 > linuxprinting.org so I could use it in the kde-printer wizard. No problem so 
 > far. I can see and modify the settings also via localhost:631. When printing, 
 > the cups error-log sais : "stopped with status 2 !". So I've changed the 
 > level to debug (see below pls). The file gets in /var/spool/cups/ but nothing 
 > gets printed on paper :-(
 > 
 > What still goes wrong ? Thx for any help.

If you haven't got it sorted yet, I did notice amongst the debug output: 

 > I [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] Job 8 queued on 'HPPhotosmart7350' by 'beni'.

[..]

 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] 
 > start_process("/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstops", 0xbfbef340, 
 > 0xbfbee6b0, 10, 12, 9)
 > I [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] Started 
 > filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstops (PID 17668) for job 8.

 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] StartJob: filter = 
 > "/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip"

 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 10 13 ]
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] 
 > start_process("/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip", 0xbfbef340, 
 > 0xbfbee6b0, 11, 13, 9)
 > I [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] Started 
 > filter /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 17669) for job 8.

[..]

 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] [Job 
 > 8] /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such file or directory

[..]

 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] [Job 8] 0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] [Job 8] 0 %%Creator: KDE 3.4.1 HTML Library
[..]
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] [Job 8] 0 %%BeginPageSetup
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] [Job 8] 0 %%EndPageSetup
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] [Job 8] 0 %%Trailer
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] [Job 8] Saw Trailer!
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:34 +0200] [Job 8] Saw EOF!

 > E [03/Aug/2005:16:16:35 +0200] PID 17669 stopped with status 2!

 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:35 +0200] UpdateJob: job 8, file 0 is complete.
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:35 +0200] CancelJob: id = 8
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:35 +0200] StopJob: id = 8, force = 0
 > D [03/Aug/2005:16:16:35 +0200] StopJob: printer state is 3

It's not clear whether "/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No
such file or directory" means that the file foomatic-rip is missing, or
that foomatic-rip can't find a file it needs, but either way, trouble!

cheers, Ian