When I try to print something after the update of cups I get a message similar to this: "Depending printing process could not be started: [...]" When I try to execute the shown command I get: "This utility doesn't support printing from STDIN" I was able to strip this down to a commandline like this: "cupsdoprint -P 'MYPRINTER'" Where MYPRINTER is the name of my printer.
Please try to rebuild kdelibs and tell me if it works after that. If not, please reopen.
*** Bug 156344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It doesn't work. Still the same problem. KDE tries to start cupsdoprint. When I start it manually I am still told that it doesn't support printing from stdin...
Should I perhaps also rebuild kdeprint??? Does anyone know why this bug suddenly happened? Downgrading cups didn't help either... Is this a bug in the Gentoo patches to KDE?
Dennis Schridde: I have tried rebuilding both cups and kdeprint with no success. Well, we might at least compere each others printer related programs versions; these are mine: kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r7 (my tip for a culprit) kde-base/kdeprint-3.5.5 net-print/cups-1.2.7 Btw adding filename as the last parameter to the cupsdoprint command works well for manual printing.
Problem persists, no fix found till now. I am just glad that I didn't have to print something other than PDFs till now (do it via acroread). Otherwise I would have been screwed. That's the reason why I increased the severity to major. (You could even see it as critical, IMO, because it makes all and every KDE application completely unable to print.) I am using the same versions: kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r7 kde-base/kdeprint-3.5.5 net-print/cups-1.2.7
Same here, cups 1.2.6, kde 3.5.5 and kdelibs recompiled - still not able to print with kde.
Is there actually a maintainer of this bug? Is there even a Gentoo-Printing team? It seems as if no one cares about this problem... :( Perhaps the assignment should be switched to some other group? KDE maintainers maybe? (Other programs, like AcroRead, GIMP and similar do not have this problem.)
I tried downgrading kdelibs, cups and kdeprint to a previous version. There were some bockers with kdeprint (3.5.2) therefore I downgraded only kdelibs (to 3.5.5-r6) and cups (to 1.2.6). I rebooted and printing worked again. Then I emerged previously quickpackaged kdelibs-3.5.5-r7, restarted both kde and cupsd and printing still worked. I am currently re-emerging kdelibs-3.5.5-r7, cups-1.2.6 and kdeprint-3.5.5 from sources to see if downgrading cups was the real solution.
Well, downgrading cups to version 1.3.6 solved this bug for me.
Downgrading to 1.3.6? I guess you mean 1.2.6? Well, for most of us this didn't help...
You are right, I meant 1.2.6. I remember kdelibs and cups were the last packages I emerged before the problem occured. Kdelibs r6 and r7 AFAIK differ only in some xinerama patches therefore cups should be the culprit. I admit not to understand "the magic behind" but I will provide any information you need. In fact I did nothing more than emerging older cups and re-emerging kdelibs.
It seems I have the same problem here. I can't .print pdfs nor send them to fax. But a standard text-file I can print without any problem. With acroread I can print .pdfs as well. So it seems the problem is in the format-changing (from .pdf to .ps I think). I already have recompiled xpdf, cups, kdelibs and kdeprint -- with no success. Here my versions: kdelibs-3.5.5-r5 kdeprint-3.5.5 cups-1.2.6 xpdf-3.01-r8
i can confirm problem exists with cups-1.2.6 and kdelibs-3.5.5-r5 problem does _not_ exist with cups-1.1.23-r8 and kdelibs-3.5.5-r5 i recompiled kdelibs after downgrading cups but dunno if it's necessary. at least now my users can print from kde apps.
I just tried like you said: Downgrade to cups 1.2.6 and reemerge kdelibs. Result: Same as before... Still no printing in KDE. :(
I admit I have no idea what is it going on. I wanted to test the issue a bit further and therefore did "emerge =cups-1.2.7 && emerge kdelibs kdeprint". I hoped printing will NOT work. I rebooted pc, started kde, started cupsd and printing works.
(In reply to comment #15) > I just tried like you said: > Downgrade to cups 1.2.6 and reemerge kdelibs. > Result: Same as before... Still no printing in KDE. :( > I have found out that 'emerge =cups-1.2.7 && emerge kdelibs kdeprint' and pc restarted really disables my kde printing while 'emerge =cups-1.2.6 && emerge kdelibs kdeprint' eneables kde printing. I have tested it twice recently. The working cups 1.2.7 was probably caused by me not restarting cupsd. Sorry for such hoax :-(
I have masked 1.2.7 a while ago, without that it would have fixed the problem. I just have updated to KDE 3.5.6 and the problem still persists...
I still have no idea how to enable printing on my machine. With cups-1.2.6 kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r3 --> printing does not work Then i went back to cups-1.1.23-r8 recompiled kdebase and printing is still not working. I dont have kde-print explicitly installed, but as printing worked before the update to kde-3.5.5, i guess this is somehow part of kdebase (it is also not possible to emerge kde-printing when kde-base is installed).
Print magically works again here (since a while). kdelibs-3.5.6-r5 kdeprint-3.5.6 cups-1.2.10
This bug got fixed upstream. it worksforme and I am on KDE: 3.5.7
