Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:05:59 +0930 From: <imoore@picknowl.com.au> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CUPS port problems Message-ID: <20030814033559.33C0096881@jupiter.picknowl.com.au>
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Aha, I've fixed that problem, it was konquerer. I just tried it in Mozilla & it accepted the name quite happily! Ian Ian writes: > Hi, > I used to have cups running quite nicely until I upgraded my system to > 4.8-Release (a fresh install afer fdisking the drive). When I installed > CUPS on my new system and tried to add a printer, I got the message > Error: The printer name may only contain up to 127 printable characters. > It say this regardless of what I call the printer. > > I fooled around a bit looking on the cups site & mailing lists & this list > for clues, but came up with nothing, so I left it for a while. > Now I've cvsuped my ports tree, removed cups from my system and kde which > had installed cups-base, and deleted any leftover traces I could find. > Then I installed the new port, plus gimp-print. > Now when I try to add a printer, I get exactly the same error. The error > log file doesn't show any error messages. > > Has anyone got any come accross this or have any suggestions? > > Cheers,
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