Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 11:08:34 -0800 From: Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Having trouble printing to my HP OJ Pro 8600 all-in-one Message-ID: <6ff9e537-e2db-e6f3-39aa-4267ec7400c1@mahan.org> In-Reply-To: <20161126150145.5bf8773c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <b63c46fd-b586-bab9-f053-13fbc2e515cc@mahan.org> <31b7b3c7-326f-87e2-2986-f06280057c46@dreamchaser.org> <bb10ba5e-7850-a87e-ba08-015911f7d679@mahan.org> <98dafc2e-0584-2521-d766-8fb3da449c2b@dreamchaser.org> <686b9894-f67c-d459-4a72-16df5641a887@mahan.org> <a50412f9-8b89-e98b-5b1a-d77d8b1711a5@dreamchaser.org> <a98b9011-67df-ce50-15d1-bef2b62ea897@mahan.org> <20161126150145.5bf8773c@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 11/26/16 6:01 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 22:12:13 -0800 Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org> wrote: >> On 11/25/16 8:07 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: >>> On 11/25/16 20:24, Patrick Mahan wrote: >>>> On 11/25/16 6:40 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: >>>>> On 11/25/16 16:46, Patrick Mahan wrote: >>>>>> On 11/23/16 8:50 PM, Gary Aitken wrote: >>>>>>> On 11/22/16 21:22, Patrick Mahan wrote: >>>>>>>> All, >>> ... >>>>>>>> I just update my binary packages (after much much pain) since they were >>>>>>>> so out of date. One of the items that seemed to drastically was CUPS. >>>>>>>> I had CUPS-2.0.1 and now have CUPS-2.2.1, but it seems I have lost all >>>>>>>> printing ability. I re-installed all available cups packages (except client, >>>>>>>> can't see where that exists) along with gutenprint and hplip. I see on >>>>>>>> the ports page that there a secondary package called hplip-plugins but >>>>>>>> pkg will not install it as it says it cannot find any package matching >>>>>>>> that name. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Cups sees the printer, it seems up, but when I attempt to print a test >>>>>>>> page, I get the following error: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Unable to print test page: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Unsupported format "text/plain". >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Looking in /usr/local/etc/cups and I don't see any definition for >>>>>>>> "text/plain". Also, the cups filter in the .ppd for the printer >>>>>>>> is set to "application/vnd.cups-raster 0 hpcups", but I can find >>>>>>>> no definition of vnd.cups-raster nor hpcups. >>> >>> Are you saying you have a mime.types under /usr/local/etc/cups? >>> These should be in /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types >>> What are the permissions on it? >>> $ ls -l /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types >>> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6743 Nov 7 08:40 /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types >>> >> >> Um, no... >> >> From my earlier email - >> >> mahan@gypsy-new-~ 6 > grep "text/plain" /usr/local/share/cups/mime/*.types >> /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types:text/plain txt >> printable(0,1024) >> >> The location of mime.types is where it should be. >> >> The permissions are - >> >> gypsy-new# ls -l /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types >> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6743 Nov 19 18:08 /usr/local/share/cups/mime/mime.types >> >> Here are the *.types in /usr/local/etc/cups/ >> >> gypsy-new# find /usr/local/etc/cups -name "*.types" >> /usr/local/etc/cups/apple.types >> /usr/local/etc/cups/command.types >> >> So I'm still not sure why this is broken now. Is there someway to enable >> debugging in the filter handling? > > What is the output of 'pkg which /usr/local/etc/cups/apple.types'? If it > says not found in database, remove the file. If /usr/local/etc/cups/mime.* > exist, remove them. You can also remove the following packages: > I believe that was added as part of the avahi stuff that I installed to support apple devices needing "AirPrint" support. The apple.types contains: gypsy-new# cat /usr/local/etc/cups/apple.types # # "$Id:$" # # Airprint type image/urf urf string(0,UNIRAST<00>) # # End of "$Id:$". # There is no /usr/local/etc/cups/mime.types (as you can from the 'find' command). > foomatic-db-20161105 > foomatic-db-engine-4.0.12_1,2 > foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 > gimp-gutenprint-5.2.10_3 > gutenprint-base-5.2.10_2 > gutenprint-cups-5.2.10_3 > gutenprint-foomatic-5.2.10_2 > hplip-plugin-3.16.10 > Okay, they are removed. > Then restart cupsd with 'service cupsd restart'. > Done. Well, look at that, it's printing. What do you think was the blockage? Thanks, Patrick
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