Description of problem: With the single existing printer queue, which is of a type "lpd on a remote machine", after printing on it a single file (IIRC data were fed to 'lpr' from stdin) which prints in an expected manner and with no indication of errors, I noticed after a while that I have a new tiny icon on a toolbar. A closer examination reveals that it looks like a printer. Clicking on it opens a window with a "Document print status" title. It has one line in it which says: Unknown lp ? 1 hour and 5 minutes ago Unknown This apparently refers to my print job mentioned above as there were no other candicates. "Edit" on that line offers options like "Cancel Documents", "Pause Documents", "Resume Documents". Regardless of what I am choosing and what I do in the followup that does not seem to have any effects whatsoever. 'lpq' says: lp is ready no entries and 'lpc' agrees with it. 'lprm' simply prints 'lprm: Unable to cancel job(s)!' and 'lprm -' returns silently and no changes. A machine reboot seems to clear the condition, or at least that extra icon disappers, but this is a kind of a drastic action for that. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.1.21-1.rc2.1
Fixing component.
I can confirm that this is still the case in FC3 final. % rpm -q libgnomecups cups-libs cups hal-cups-utils libgnomecups-0.1.12-5 cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.8 cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.8 hal-cups-utils-0.5.2-8
So...this happens when you configure your local CUPS server to have a queue which forwards to a remote machine's lpd queue? What happens if you browse to http://localhost:631/jobs ?
Well, with current "rawhide" http://localhost:631/jobs says "No Active Jobs" and this small icon on a toolbar pops up a window which says that some job was completed over eight hours ago. Basically a pure visual noise but at least it does not says "Unknown".
Still the same behaviour with FC5
Hi, i have still the same problem on FC6. Obviously eggcups tries to connect to localhost:ipp instead of remotecups:ipp where the printer is atually managed. Eggcups has ipp status error 1280 one time and a lot 1030 (clearly localhost won't be able to give some infos about a remote job) This seems to be a real small but annoying bug, as lpq and lpstat and stuff all wor well. Any ideas how this could be fixed?
eggcups no longer shipped.