Kprinter has stopped working - Unable to start child print process

[Kurt Pfeifle]

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
>