[plug] Printer won't print

[Margaret Wood]

I eventually got it 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 classed as a removable device?

Margaret
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Henstridge" <james at jamesh.id.au>
To: plug at plug.org.au
Sent: Monday, 1 April, 2013 9:05:54 AM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi
Subject: Re: [plug] Printer won't print

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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