Hello team.

I have just migrated from Linux Arch to Solaris 11 (OpenSolaris 2008.05).

My Epson Stylus Photo R800 worked wonderfully in Linux ... oh woe is me in Solaris. I cannot print. I get:

lp: Unsupported format 'text/plain'!

The R800 drivers are not in gimpprint so I had to download the later version "gutenprint". This comes in source only My printer is on a USB network print server with static IP as 192.168.0.100. My VISTA laptop can connect to the printer and prints out!

This is what I have done so far:


1. I've installed the pkg-get utility from blastwave.
2. Installed (pkg-get -i) cups & ghostscript. These were installed into /opt/csw - I had no choice here!
3. Downloaded gutenprint 5.2.0 source (no package avail) and compiled.
3. started CUPS server (cupsd)
4. Compiled gutenprint and installed into /opt/gutenprint (./configure --prefix=/opt/gutenprint)
5. Tried to add a printer via localhost:631 but after trying to apply settings, I get a login window asking for user/password. The root credentials dont work - neither do my own standard user I logged into at GDM. I can "su" to root but dont know what to do here??
6. used cups-genppd-5.2 to generate a PPD file for my printer. No probs here, it created the stp-escp2-r800.5.2.ppd file (same as was on linux!). I examined the file and it looks fine.
7. I tried adding the printer with:

lpadmin -p Epson -E -v socket://192.168.0.100:9100 -P ./stp-escp2-r800.5.2.ppd
lpadmin -d Epson

8. then a trial ..

# ls | lp

lp: Unsupported format 'text/plain'!

# lpstat -t

scheduler is running
system default destination: R800
device for R800: socket://192.168.0.100:9100
R800 accepting requests since Tue Aug 05 21:29:20 2008
printer R800 is idle. enabled since Tue Aug 05 21:29:20 2008


?? I'm stuck now. Help ???

EDIT:
a little further ... I specified the interface program /usr/lib/lp/bin/foomatic-rip with the -i option.

Now no errors.

The log file seems to indicate successful print and connects to the printer (192.168.0.100 IPV4)

but no printout.

???

Hope you dont mind the log file: (p.s. I tried several times before restarting cupsd and submitting a job, so that's where the cached jobs come from)

# cat /opt/csw/var/log/cups/error_log
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:41 +0000] Saving job cache file "/opt/csw/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 (IPv4)
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Listening to ::1:631 (IPv6)
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Listening to /opt/csw/var/run/cups/cups.sock (Domain)
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loaded configuration file "/opt/csw/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Using default TempDir of /opt/csw/var/spool/cups/tmp...
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/opt/csw/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Using policy "default" as the default!
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Full reload is required.
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loaded MIME database from '/opt/csw/etc/cups': 34 types, 37 filters...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loading printer epson...
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loading job cache file "/opt/csw/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loading job 9 from cache...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loading job 10 from cache...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loading job 11 from cache...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loading job 12 from cache...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Loading job 13 from cache...
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Full reload complete.
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 4...
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Listening to ::1:631 on fd 5...
I [05/Aug/2008:23:24:42 +0000] Listening to /opt/csw/var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 6...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] CUPS-Get-Classes
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] CUPS-Get-Default
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] CUPS-Get-Classes
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/jobs/
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:00 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 10
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] CUPS-Get-Classes
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] CUPS-Get-Default
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 10
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST /printers/epson HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Print-Job ipp://localhost/printers/epson
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] print_job: auto-typing file...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] print_job: request file type is text/plain.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] add_job: requesting-user-name="root"
I [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Adding start banner page "none" to job 14.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Discarding unused job-created event...
I [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Adding end banner page "none" to job 14.
I [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Job 14 queued on "epson" by "root".
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Job 14 hold_until = 0
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] job-sheets=none,none
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] banner_page = 0
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] argv[0]="epson"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] argv[1]="14"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] argv[2]="root"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] argv[3]="(stdin)"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] argv[4]="1"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] argv[5]="job-uuid=urn:uuid:150f1be2-bcde-3560-44a0-7bd87401ca00"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] argv[6]="/opt/csw/var/spool/cups/d00014-001"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[0]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/opt/csw/var/cache/cups"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[1]="CUPS_DATADIR=/opt/csw/share/cups"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[2]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/opt/csw/share/doc/cups"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[3]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/opt/csw/share/cups/fonts"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[4]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/opt/csw/var/spool/cups"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[5]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/opt/csw/lib/cups"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/opt/csw/etc/cups"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[7]="CUPS_STATEDIR=/opt/csw/var/run/cups"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[8]="PATH=/opt/csw/lib/cups/filter:/opt/csw/bin:/opt/csw/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[9]="SERVER_ADMIN=root@office"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[10]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.2.7"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[11]="TMPDIR=/opt/csw/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[12]="TZ=GB"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[13]="USER=root"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[14]="CUPS_SERVER=/opt/csw/var/run/cups/cups.sock"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[15]="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[16]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[17]="CHARSET=utf-8"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[18]="LANG=en_US"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[19]="PPD=/opt/csw/etc/cups/ppd/epson.ppd"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[20]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[21]="CONTENT_TYPE=text/plain"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[22]="DEVICE_URI=socket://192.168.0.100"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[23]="PRINTER=epson"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] envp[24]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=printer/epson"
I [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Started filter /opt/csw/etc/cups/interfaces/epson (PID 1449) for job 14.
I [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Started backend /opt/csw/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 1450) for job 14.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Discarding unused job-state event...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] LC_ALL = (unset),
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] LANG = "en_US"
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] are supported and installed on your system.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 10
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Connected to 192.168.0.100:9100 (IPv4)...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] backendRunLoop(print_fd=0, device_fd=4, use_bc=1)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] en_US: unknown locale
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Getting input from file /opt/csw/var/spool/cups/d00014-001
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] foomatic-rip version $Revision: 3.43.2.18 $ running...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Parsing PPD file ...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Parameter Summary
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] -----------------
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Spooler: cups
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Printer: epson
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Shell: /bin/sh
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] PPD file: /opt/csw/etc/cups/ppd/epson.ppd
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] ATTR file:
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Printer model: Raw queue
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Job title: stdin
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] File(s) to be printed:
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] /opt/csw/var/spool/cups/d00014-001
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] GhostScript extra search path ('GS_LIB'): /opt/csw/share/cups/fonts
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Pondering option 'job-uuid=urn:uuid:150f1be2-bcde-3560-44a0-7bd87401ca00'
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Unknown option job-uuid=urn:uuid:150f1be2-bcde-3560-44a0-7bd87401ca00.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] ================================================
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] File: /opt/csw/var/spool/cups/d00014-001
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] ================================================
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Raw printing, executing "cat "
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Read 245 bytes of print data...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Wrote 245 bytes of print data...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14]
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] [Job 14] Closing foomatic-rip.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] PID 1449 (/opt/csw/etc/cups/interfaces/epson) exited with no errors.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:04 +0000] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:05 +0000] PID 1450 (/opt/csw/lib/cups/backend/socket) exited with no errors.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:05 +0000] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:05 +0000] [Job 14] File 0 is complete.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:05 +0000] Discarding unused printer-state-changed event...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:05 +0000] Discarding unused job-completed event...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:06 +0000] Unloading job 14...
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] CUPS-Get-Classes
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] CUPS-Get-Default
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] CUPS-Get-Classes
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 10 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/jobs/
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 10 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/Aug/2008:23:25:07 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 10
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BUMP! Anyone ?