I know others seem to have solved their problems with the new CUPS, but not I. My printer was working fine before the upgrade and now it doesn't. What has changed? The print jobs just sit in queue and never print. Here are some of the messages that appear in the error log:
When I restart the
The cups group does not seem to be recognized though it is there in the group file under /etc.
My spool directory (/var/spool/cups/) looks like this:
Instead of assigning cups as the user nobody gets assigned. I suppose this is why I get the error message: Unable to open device file: Permission denied. Using
I have fiddled with this problem for a couple of days now and cannot figure out how to fix it. Does anyone have an idea what may be going on here? I can't figure out what has changed.
Thanks.
Neal
Code:
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open device file: Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open command file - : Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open device file: Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open device file: Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open command file - : Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open command file - : Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open device file: Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open command file - : Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open device file: Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open command file - : Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open device file: Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open command file - : Permission denied
E [10/Apr/2014:22:15:42 -0500] [Job 151] Unable to open device file: Permission denied
When I restart the
devfs
program to make the printer available I get this puzzling message:
Code:
chown: users: illegal group name
chown: users: illegal group name
chown: users: illegal group name
chown: users: illegal group name
The cups group does not seem to be recognized though it is there in the group file under /etc.
My spool directory (/var/spool/cups/) looks like this:
Code:
-rw------- 1 root cups 674 Apr 9 21:32 c00148
-rw------- 1 root nobody 916 Apr 10 20:49 c00149
-rw------- 1 root cups 735 Apr 9 21:55 c00150
-rw------- 1 root nobody 742 Apr 10 22:21 c00151
-rw------- 1 root nobody 775 Apr 10 21:08 c00152
-rw------- 1 root nobody 650 Apr 10 22:05 c00153
-rw-r----- 1 root cups 32 Apr 9 21:31 d00148-001
-rw-r----- 1 root cups 45609 Apr 9 21:53 d00149-001
-rw-r----- 1 root cups 64518 Apr 9 21:55 d00150-001
-rw-r----- 1 root nobody 32 Apr 10 20:46 d00151-001
-rw-r----- 1 root nobody 32 Apr 10 20:46 d00152-001
-rw-r----- 1 root nobody 234 Apr 10 22:05 d00153-001
-rw------- 1 root cups 1012 Apr 8 22:23 lpr
drwx--x--T 2 root cups 512 Apr 4 23:49 tmp
Instead of assigning cups as the user nobody gets assigned. I suppose this is why I get the error message: Unable to open device file: Permission denied. Using
chown
and chmod
on the files in the spool does not seem to help. Nothing gets printed. I have fiddled with this problem for a couple of days now and cannot figure out how to fix it. Does anyone have an idea what may be going on here? I can't figure out what has changed.
Thanks.
Neal