unable to print using cups o nFreeBSD 5.0-Release

Jason Cribbins cups at kibserv.org
Tue Apr 8 09:43:27 PDT 2003


I am posting to both Cups and FreeBSD lists because I Am not sure shich side
the problem exists.

I am running the FReeBSD PAckage Cups-1.1.15.1 Which installs Ghostscript
7.05_3 as a dependancy.  THe install went ok but nothing ever seems to work.
I Was able to get things to work on a 4.7-Release system I used to have bet
never on 5.0-Release.  I switched to 5.0-RELEASE back in January because of a
hardware compatibility issue so I cant go back to 4.7 anymore without buying
new hardware

Here are the log entries that occur when I startup and try to print

I [07/Apr/2003:18:54:13 -0400] Listening to 0:631
I [07/Apr/2003:18:54:13 -0400] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [07/Apr/2003:18:54:13 -0400] Allowing up to 10 client connections per host.
I [07/Apr/2003:18:54:13 -0400] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 12
 PPDs... I [07/Apr/2003:18:54:13 -0400] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...
I [08/Apr/2003:10:24:00 -0400] Job 3 queued on 'ned' by 'root'.
E [08/Apr/2003:10:24:00 -0400] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format
for job 3!
I [08/Apr/2003:10:24:00 -0400] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
I [08/Apr/2003:10:24:00 -0400] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug".
12:31pm butters:/var/log/cups #

NOw its telling me I dont have Ghostscript installed but the sysinstall
program says I do.  I even tried to install Ghostscript from the ports
collectionand it refused saying Ghostscript was already installed.  Same
result when  tried to install both Cups and Ghostscript from source
downloaded from the easysw ftp site......No matter what I try I cant seem to
find a solution to this problem.

Can someone help me.  I am sure I have probably not provided enough
information for anyone to help but just let me know what exactly I should
check and report on.  Or better yet is there a web site that has better
troubleshooting docs that the ones on easysw web site?

Is there anyone who is repsonsible for maintinaing and answering questions
 for these packages?  I have found email addresses of people in the ports
 collection but since IU am not currently running from the prots collection I
 didnt think I should bother them about this.

Thanks
Jason



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