CUPS wont print inside GNOME

[Roger Olofsson]

Sean Cavanaugh skrev:
>> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:58:06 +0100
>> From: 240olofsson at telia.com
>> To: millenia2000 at hotmail.com
>> CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME
>>
>>
>>
>> Sean Cavanaugh skrev:
>>> I have the latest GNOME installed from ports and have the odd issue of CUPS not wanting to work with it right.
>>>
>>> If i access the CUPS web configuration page, i can print test pages just fine and not a single issue, but if i try and print a test page from inside GNOME, including trying with the gnome-cups-manager port, it will stop and present the following error
>>> "/usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster failed"this error will carry over to the web interface and those jobs are pretty much hosed, yet i can create a test print from web interface even when this error is present.
>>>
>>> I do notice that test pages from web interface come from user "anonymous" whereas test pages from gnome-cups-manager are from the respected user that ran it.
>>> even root is unable to print from inside gnome.
>>>
>>> -Sean
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>> Hi Sean,
>>
>> I assume you have cups-pstoraster installed? It should be installed when 
>> installing CUPS itself.
>>
>> If you built Gnome from source you should have this in /etc/make.conf
>>
>> CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes
>> NO_LPR=yes
>> WITH_CUPS=yes
>>
>> /Roger
> 
> 
> i have cups-pstoraster installed. like i said, i can get a test page to print fine from the CUPS web page, just not if it was initialized inside gnome even though i do see the print jobs sitting in the queue for the printer with status "Stopped". Restarting the jobs doesnt help them any either.
> 
> i installed everything from ports but my make.conf file is a little bare
> 
> UnKnown# less /etc/make.conf 
> # added by use.perl 2008-10-23 14:57:35
> PERL_VER=5.8.8
> PERL_VERSION=5.8.8
> 
> 
> -Sean
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Hi again Sean,

Add the lines, make reinstall and see if Gnome picks it up..

There's an excellent site at 
http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/ that has CUPS related 
information.

Please let the list know if it helps!

/Roger