63455 – foomatic link dead and foomatic fails

Bug 63455 - foomatic link dead and foomatic fails

Summary: foomatic link dead and foomatic fails

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Printing HOWTO (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing...
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Reported:	2004-09-09 11:29 UTC by ivo welch
Modified:	2004-09-11 06:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description ivo welch 2004-09-09 11:29:26 UTC

## foomatic-configure -s cups -p Brother-HL-5070N -c file:/dev/lp0 -n Brother -d Postscript
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3389.
lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible
Could not set up/change the queue "Brother"!

So, I clicked on the link "If you are having problems, please refer to the foomatic documentatation "here"  which is broken.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-11 06:23:33 UTC

I've removed the links from the document as the USAGE document doesn't seem to be available anymore. Regarding the foomatic failure, please follow up on bug #63458 which covers this exact problem.