Description of Problem: I installed RH7.2 recently and have never being able to get the OkiPage8z with both parallel and USB ports printing anything from RH7.2. The printer was configured as a local printer at /dev/lp0 and 0ki4w was the driver specified. Apparently, the printer was also detected at /dev/usb/lp0. I was able to define a print queue 'Oki' and send test pages to it. However the jobs failed and was removed without any thing being printed. The printer remained "idle and accepting jobs" after the jobs failed and were removed The error is as follows: ": prepended:' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.563 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'gs PID pid2=4579' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.564 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'closing *main::KID3' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.566 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'sh: /dev/oki4drv: Permission denied' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.573 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'tail process done writing data to *main::STDOUT' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.574 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter msg - 'Error closing pipe to (echo -en "%FAKEOKI PAPERSIZE=letter\n%FAKEOKI MANUALFEED=OFF\n%FAKEOKI PAPERWEIGHT=0\n%FAKEOKI DARKNESS=0\n%FAKEOKI GRAPHICS=OFF\n"; cat) 1>/dev/oki4drv 2>/dev/null at /usr/share/printconf/util/printconf_mfomatic.pl line 397, <STDIN> line 284.' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.578 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 IF filter 'mf_wrapper' filter exit status 'JFAIL' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.585 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 printing finished at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.585 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 accounting at end at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.585 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 finished 'cfA534mcns11.docsis119.singa.pore.net', status 'JFAIL' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.585 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4567 subserver pid 4567 exit status 'JFAIL' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.586 ## A=<NULL> number=0 process=4535 job 'cfA534mcns11.docsis119.singa.pore.net', attempt 3, allowed 3 at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.587 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4535 send_failure_action 'JREMOVE' at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.587 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4535 job 'cfA534mcns11.docsis119.singa.pore.net', removing job - status JREMOVE at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.587 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4535 removing job 'cfA534mcns11.docsis119.singa.pore.net' - JREMOVE at 2001-12-30-12:21:05.588 ## A=<NULL> number=534 process=4535" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): foomatic 1-1-0.20010905.1 How Reproducible: Have reinstall a few times with usb port disabled at motherboard level, with both USB and parallel ports connected at the same time as well as with parael port connected only. TRied lpr textfile, printing from Netscape, spreadsheet etc. Not a single print-job was sucessful. Steps to Reproduce: 1. as described above 2. 3. Actual Results: Absolutely nothing printed Expected Results: Ascii or postscript, jpg test pages etc printed Additional Information: I have Windows as a dual-boot OS and the Oki prints well under Windows. My computer config: AMD Athalone 600MHz, 392MB memory. 20MB Quantum, Riva TNT video, Hyundai Deluxscan 15G+ monitor,50X CDRom, a Creative CDRW and of course the Okipage8z. Cable modem connected to the Internet.
Problem was due to permission of /dev/oki6drv being somehow set during installation to 550 root/root. Printing works after chmod to relax the permission.