[KLUG Members] re: CUPS

[Mike Williams]

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>My Gentoo box's cups system suddenly turned into a black hole, and I
>have no idea why.  Nothing in /var/log/messages or dmesg, and no
>"printer not ready" errors, but no printing.  According to cups, the job
>is submitted and instantly completes, unless the printer is paused, in
>which case it completes as soon as I unpause it.  The printer is a Canon
>s450, hooked up USB to the machine I'm trying to print from.  Udev is
>running, so that's my current suspicion, but udev is so confusing I'd
>prefer not to mess with it.  At this point, I'd be happy if I could get
>it to work through an old parallel cable, but CUPS doesn't seem to
>acknowledge that such a thing exists!
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After lots of investigating and a bit of harsh language, I figured it 
out.  Apparently I deleted a 32-bit compatibility library by accident, 
and the printer driver needed it.  Would have been nice of it to tell me 
something was wrong, rather than telling me the print job completed!  I 
guess I can take parallel printer support back out of the kernel now.