ports/99460: CUPS 1.2.0: Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/ulpt0": Permission denied

[Scott Robbins]

The following reply was made to PR ports/99460; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, nb_root at videotron.ca
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/99460: CUPS 1.2.0: Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/ulpt0": Permission denied
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:57:28 -0400

 I had the same experience with a parallel port.  I didn't have time to
 deeply investigate, but I did find that it seems as if both the parallel
 and USB device options are not offered when using the web interface.
 Using lpadmin to delete and re-add the printer also failed, still giving
 me the access denied error (to /dev/lpt0).
 
 Just for fun, I tried changing permissions on lpt0, and although that
 ended the access denied error message, I still had no success in
 printing.  The error log simply showed the job had been started. 
 
 As said, I didn't have time to troubleshoot, so didn't change debug
 levels, etc.  I simply downgraded to 1.1.23x and it worked again.  
 
 FWIW, in ArchLinux, they did have the parallel device offered as an
 option in the web interface, however, I didn't see a USB option. 
 
 
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 Scott Robbins
 
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