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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:58:06 +0100
From:      Roger Olofsson <240olofsson@telia.com>
To:        Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME
Message-ID:  <490B391E.3010508@telia.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY126-W53A132DAE794C3769D505DCA200@phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY126-W53A132DAE794C3769D505DCA200@phx.gbl>

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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



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