lpq & gnome 2.16 upgrade issue? lpq: unable to connect to server

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 16:42 -0400, Jeffrey Racine wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I upgraded to gnome 2.16 a few days ago, and just realized that lpr/lpq
> and now acting oddly... I have used this system for 2 years with zero
> problems. Our sysadmin told me there have been zero changes to our print
> servers. Below you will see it is a perm issue that has manifested
> itself alongside the gnome upgrade though it may be totally unrelated...
> 
> uname -a
> 
> FreeBSD pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca 6.1-RC2 FreeBSD 6.1-RC2 #0: Wed May  3
> 10:02:44 EDT 2006  
> 
> The issue, in a nutshell, is that suddenly I can't print when logged in
> to an account other than root... I have no idea what could have caused
> this unless gnome does some perm changes... if this is the wrong forum
> please forgive, and if you have any suggestions many many thanks.
> 
> As root all is well...
> 
> pc-racine1# lpq
> JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on this port
> pc-racine1# exit
> 
> As myself (non-root) no go...
> 
> [jracine at pc-racine1 jracine]$ lpq
> lpq: Unable to connect to server

Check to make sure you're using the correct lpq command, and that you
are not using the CUPS versions of these commands.  If your PATH
contains /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin, that would do it.

Joe

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