Greetings, everyone.
Upon upgrading from OpenBSD4.9 to OpenBSD5.0 something has broken my CUPS
configuration. I've been fighting with it all morning and I guess I don't have
a clue what to do with it to restore my ability to print.
When I first woke up this morning my issue was originally "Unsupported format
'application/vnd.cups-banner'!" when I was trying to print a test page. It
moved on and gave me another error at some point complaining about not having
the permissions to be able to access /dev/lpt0, so I changed the permissions on
the device in order to allow cupsd to access it.
I must've fought with the http port 631 GUI for like 45 minutes before I had
enough coffee this morning to figure out that I can only log in as the
administrator from the server running cupsd itself; once I got there I was
still unable to really do anything. I switched from the driver that has been
working for me and my HP LaserJet 4xxx for quite awhile now back and forth to
another driver that I've had in the /etc/cups/ppd directory for some reason.
That didn't work, obviously.
After awhile I tried saving the configuration file directory and downgrading
the cups version that I had upgraded to with the system upgrade (1.4.7) to the
previous version (1.4.6) (I believe those version numbers are correct, anyway).
No luck, but the error messages have changed.
It seems like it's actually trying to print the jobs now without giving me
any crap (part of what helped was making sure that I was matching the cups-pdf
package to the same generation as the cups package itself, duhhh to me again).
Unfortunately something weird is happening at the printer itself now that the
jobs are going to it. Each time I send any type of job to it (test page, pure
text, .PNG graphics file) I end up seeing 'WS INVALID PERS' in the printer's
status window (on the printer itself). Each job on the cups admin page says
that it's processing since .... and then after awhile disappears from the
queue. However nothing gets printed at all and my printer sits with that error
code on until I manually mash the reset and continue buttons on there.
Can anybody help me out here? I'm thankful for pointers to good resources,
troubleshooting tips, or anything that might help in the slightest. I've got
an appointment tomorrow that I really need to print off a lot of my scanned
documents for (it's a very urgent situation) and I don't have any money for
taking the documents on a thumb-drive to Staples or Office Depot or anything of
the sort to see if they can print the stuff off for me.
Again, I greatly appreciate any help that anyone can provide. Thank you
guys. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you need more information, I'm
not sure what level of log output is needed and what is relevant here.
TIA
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