Arch linux, lxdm/lxde, recent installation, feeling I must be doing something stupid, would be glad to be guided!
I have a Brother HL-2030 printer connected to a Raspberry Pi as a print server, CUPS setup, with sharing turned on. Other machines in the household, and indeed other OS's on the machine I'm writing on, print trouble-free to this printer.
On *this* desktop machine, (with libcups installed,) other programs print trouble-free. Firefox, Thunderbird, geany and evince all detect the presence of the network printer, and work as expected.
It's just Libreoffice that does not. This is true both of libreoffice-fresh and libreoffice-still, and it is true for all the components (write, draw, calc etc).
Libreoffice *does* find the network printer from other OS's that I play with; I have Puppy and Mint on the same machine, but those installs of Libreoffice are obviously different/earlier versions (nor do I feel like upgrading them in the circumstances!)
In this context, though, the Libreoffice "File>Printer settings..." menu offers me only a "Generic Printer" (whose properties and options I can edit). If I ask Libreoffice to print to this generic printer, it reports no failure, but that task just seems to disappear into thin air.
On the Pi server, /var/log/cups/ offers
Code:
# extract from /var/log/cups/access_log
# [...snip]
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 566 CUPS-Get-Printers server-error-version-not-supported
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] "POST /printers/Brother_HL-2030_series HTTP/1.1" 200 15824 Print-Job successful-ok
# the above line logs a successful print from geany
192.168.2.2 - - [22/Jan/2015:18:26:40 +0000] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 673 CUPS-Get-Default server-error-version-not-supported
# extract of /var/log/cups/error_log
# [...snip]
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:20 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:20 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:21:21 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
E [22/Jan/2015:18:26:40 +0000] Returning IPP server-error-version-not-supported for CUPS-Get-Default (no URI) from 192.168.2.2
I really think I must be doing something very stupid and newbie-ish!