debian cups can't add a printer

I've installed cups and cups-client.

I'm in the lpadmin group.

Now when I click on 'Add Printer' in the Administration nothing happens.

The access log says it was successful though.

localhost - - [11/May/2012:13:43:49 +0200] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.0" 200 60 - -
localhost - - [11/May/2012:13:43:49 +0200] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.0" 200 4987 - -

EDIT: it does not work with localhost:631 or 127.0.0.1:631 but with the ipv6 version http://[::1]:631

EDIT2: contents of /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1   localhost

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

EDIT3: changed the first line of the /etc/hosts to 127.0.0.1 localhost ipv4-localhost ipv4-loopback, still don't working. if I bind cups to 127.0.0.1 it is obviously not reachable via [::1]:631 but still not working via 127.0.0.1/localhost either.

snippl

Posted 2012-05-11T11:45:55.203

Reputation: 5

i.e. with ipv6 it works? :) Also, what is the value of AuthType for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (if it is Default then provide DefaultAuthType too). – barti_ddu – 2012-05-11T18:29:32.200

it only works with ipv6. DefaultAuthType is Basic and AuthType for everything in the config is Default. – snippl – 2012-05-12T07:53:53.923

good; now post contents of your /etc/hosts file. – barti_ddu – 2012-05-12T11:56:35.173

try changing entry 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts -> 127.0.0.1 localhost ipv4-localhost ipv4-loopback (restart cups after that); 2. you may also try to bind cups to ipv4 explicitely (by changing Listen localhost:631 -> Listen 127.0.0.1:631 in cups conf).

< – barti_ddu – 2012-05-12T12:56:44.287

debian cups can't add a printer

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