[plug] Printer won't print

[Margaret Wood]

(Apologies to the mailing list admin, I originally sent this from the
wrong email address so it got trapped)

I eventually got the printer  to work by specifically adding root as
an enabled user of the printer.

But then the next time I logged in (having turned off the printer
meanwhile) it failed again.
I can get it to work by deleting the printer and then adding it, so
it's not a major problem any more (I don't print all that much), but
still very peculiar.

I have since discovered that Mageia doesn't automatically remount
removable devices, unless specifically requested, but is a printer on
a parallel port classed as a removable device?

Margaret

On 01/04/2013, James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Margaret Wood <msrwood at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Lance
>>
>> It's a very sensible question - I did initilally forget that I needed
>> to log out and back in, but I did try that later, and it made no
>> difference.
>
> The CUPS print spooler on Linux doesn't run under your user ID (it is
> a daemon process that your applications talk to), so it isn't too
> surprising that changing your own group membership didn't make much of
> a difference.
>
> Does your distro do anything special to lock down CUPS (e.g. via
> AppArmor or SELinux)?  Perhaps the security policy is blocking it?
>
> James.
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