CUPS server error

**ztac** · January 31st, 2013

Hello..
I got this error when I add a new printer.

CUPS server error
There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'server-error-internal-error'.

Please help..

**omeomi** · January 31st, 2013

Can you provide a little bit more information?

Which Ubuntu version do you run? What printer? Which driver did you select? Did you use the command line or web interface (http://localhost:631/) to add the printer?

**ztac** · February 4th, 2013

Originally Posted by omeomi

Can you provide a little bit more information?

Which Ubuntu version do you run? What printer? Which driver did you select? Did you use the command line or web interface (http://localhost:631/) to add the printer?

I am using ubuntu 12.04 and i am trying to add epson lq300+ii to printers in administration menu..After adding ppd file (eplq.ppd) and clicking apply, the error appears..

CUPS server error

**tgalati4** · February 4th, 2013

Look through the files in /var/log/cups for any clues.

**ztac** · February 4th, 2013

Originally Posted by tgalati4

Look through the files in /var/log/cups for any clues.

**error log
Returning IPP server-error-internal-error for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (ipp://localhost/printers/Epson-LQ-300+) from localhost

Unknown directive SystemGroup on line 16 of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
**

I opened the cupsd.conf and this is what on the line 16:
SystemGroup lpadmin

**tgalati4** · February 5th, 2013

My SystemGroup is on line 3, so that is strange. And it is set to the correct value.

You can change loglevel warnings then reboot cups:

LogLevel debug2
LogLevel debug
LogLevel emerg
LogLevel error
LogLevel info

from:

Code:

man cupsd.conf

It's possible that your cups installation is badly broken. Try removing and reinstalling. Did you update your kernel lately? Did you edit /etc/hosts?

You should have localhost defined:

tgalati4@Dell600m-mint14$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost