Am Thu, 15 May 2008 17:20:31 -0400 schrieb "Ryan Sims" <rwsims@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Thayer Williams > <thayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/15/08, Ryan Sims <rwsims@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I just installed Arch on my print server at home; it had been > >> running another distro and chugging along happily. It's got a > >> Brother HL2040 attached to it via USB, and I use cups to share it > >> around the network. > >> > >> Well, I got the server is up and running so I followed the > >> instruction in the wiki[1] for installing the printer. > >> Everything seems to have gone ok, the printer was detected and > >> installed correctly, hooray. However, it doesn't print the test > >> page (or anything else). When I ask it to print, the printer > >> wakes up and starts spinning, thinks for a couple seconds, and > >> then goes back to sleep. > > > > Are you trying to print directly from the server, or from a remote > > PC on the network? Get it working locally first before worrying > > about anything else. > > > > Are you running a GUI on the server? If so, what does > > http://localhost:631/printers show for printer status? > > > > > > Interesting, I found the problem: I had neglected to install > ghostscript. It seems to me like that should be an explicit > dependency for cups; is there a scenario where you could print from > cups without ghostscript? I also think its interesting that cups > didn't say anything about "gs" failing to run except in the "debug" > log level, and the failure certainly wasn't considered fatal, even > though it really was. > File a bug please! -Andy
