[SOLVED] UP5 breaks CUPS printer
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:23 am
Discovered by looking around at CUPS server error messages that this could be due to lack of space on the /var directory, which with me is just part of the root partition. Sure enough mine was filled by over 3 mb of cached packages by apt, so after cleaning out the cache using synaptic my Dropbox daemon starting working again. My printer still didn't work until I realised that the Xfce print manager was not pointing to CUPS (perhaps a problem when I updated with UP5 ?). In any case, this was solved simply by using the Settings tool - Printing System Selection, so now my printer is working again.Having just updated to the latest version of Mint-Update and gone through a complete update using UP5 I find that my USB printer now fails to print any documents, including the Test page in spite of being listed correctly in the Printer Properties page. Using a web browser to connect to the CUPS administration tool I can see that it too lists my printer correctly but when it lists the "jobs" in wait, I see the message explaining why the job has stopped as:I also have a problem with Dropbox on startup as it lists a similar problem saying that it doesn't have the correct permissions to launch the daemon. Would it be the same reason?Can't copy stdin to temporary file
Because of this problem I'm putting off updating my laptop as it at least can still send jobs to the printer. Anyone else have the same problem?
Suppose it was partly my own fault in that I should have made a bigger separate /var partition.
Before the next big upgrade I think I'll do some resizing of partitions!
Agrandir using Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 with LMDE-Xfce