[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cups problems

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 16/05/2023 18:37, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> I've found a few problems with cups
>
> 1) it wants system/volatile/cups, but /system/volatile doesn't exist.
>    Works if created manually and restart cups/in-lpd and /scheduler.
>    Either system/volatile should be created somehow after boot before
>    cups starts, or cups should be patched to put that into /var/run/cups;
>    but...
>
> 2) ... it wants /var/run/cups/, but that doesn't exist. Should be created
>    when it installs.
>
> 3) It complains about a missing ColorManager:
>    "The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service
>    files" which relates to a missing gnome-colord manager (because it's
>    mate here...), so it can't read icc-Profiles for the printer. Don't know
>    if that affects color-printing somehow.
>
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4) it opens network connections like hell (on a simple client):

ro sunts ~ # netstat -afinet | grep \.ipp | wc -l
      105

don't see any messages in regard to this problem, neither in messages,
syslog, cups/access_log or error_log
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