Kprinter has stopped working - Unable to start child print process
Kurt Pfeifle
k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Thu Jan 25 03:17:56 CET 2007
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:27, Andrew Myers wrote:
> For some reason Kprinter has stopped working correctly. the error
> message is:
>
> "Unable to start child print process. Check the command syntax:
> cupsdoprint -P 'Oki' -J 'envelope.ps' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'andrew' -o
> ' copies=1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies' "
>
> If I try to run the command at the command line I get:
>
> "This utility doesn't support printing from STDIN "
>
> Cupsd is running, I can look at the admin system on the web, the test
> pages print correctly through the KDE control module, and there are no
> apparent logged errors, just the error marked above. I can print the
> file from the command line using lp/lpr.
>
> If I change the print system to lpr I get a similar error message from
> Kprinter.
>
> "Unable to start child print process. Check the command syntax:
> /usr/bin/lpr -P 'Oki' '-#1'"
>
> Googling indicates that it may be something to do with an update I may
> have installed recently, but restarting the system certainly makes no
> difference.
Which distro, which version, which update, whcih KDE?
> Does any one have any ideas as to why this might occur?
>
> # uname -a
> Linux ezcool 2.6.17-6mdv #1 SMP Wed Oct 25 12:17:57 MDT 2006 x86_64 AMD
> Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ GNU/Linux
>
> All the best
>
>
> Andrew
>
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