Another problem solved by repairing permissions

[RobW]

I'm just posting this as an "FYI" in case anybody ever has the same problem that I did this morning. I went to print something this morning and got an error message indicating there was a problem printing the document. After that, I couldn't print anything. I tried deleting the printer and reselecting/adding it. I tried moving it from the network connection via Airport Extreme Base Station to being connected directly through the Mac, but no matter how I tried to select the printer again, I kept getting the same error message as soon as I tried to add the printer:   "successful-ok-conflicting-attributes".

I'd never seen that message before. I did a search and found a few reports just like that at the Apple Support Forums. The answer was simply to repair permissions. (Whew! ) I did notice information during the repair that I'd never seen before--but of course, forgot to write down what it was.

Anyway, thought I'd post this in case it happens to somebody else.

[Parker]

maybe this'll work with my dvd player
ahh... don't have the tiger intel cd's on me
POOOOOOOOOOp

p/s: when do you want those fedex labels or account number?

[Kruser]

Sometimes if you shutdown and  reboot solves some of the problems.
 Especially if you leave your your puter on all the time.

[gunug]

This might be what's was wrong with the G5 I worked on this morning.  It was 10.3.9 and wouldn't print so what I did to fix it was use that Printer Setup Repair program to completely delete the entire printer setup and then replaced it from a new download of drivers.  But I'll bet this process resets the permissions when it replaces the software. This is the place where I got the software:

http://www.fixamacsoftware.com/software/psr4/

[Xairbusdriver]

Glad you solved the problem! I've never seen that message, either. I usually use the "Printer Setup Utility" to access the printer spooler and delete an incompleted job; paper jam, wrong printer selected for the job, wrong app selected to print from, some other stoopid human reason. The spooler often detects a job being stopped and won't print anything until that job is either re-started or deleted. You'll know there's a problem the next time you try to print something and see an exclamation point next to the printer name in the print dialog window.

[RobW]

That's why I was getting frustrated. I tried deleting the print job, certainly tried the shutdown and reboot, etc. Any fixes I knew of for printer problems I had tried and they all failed. I had to run out of town for the day, and this problem happened minutes before I was leaving. I kept wondering all day what else to try. I was sure happy to find that answer and see that it was such an easy fix.