Hi Felix, thanks very much for your help and efforts. This was the decisive point. Now it works. I am open for any hint and I don't mind to get hundreds of pieces of advice, because I am hacking on the basics. Kind regards Gottfried Am 01.11.22 um 21:35 schrieb Felix Lechner: > Hi Gottfried, > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 1:01 PM Gottfried wrote: >> >> I tried, it didn't help. >> the same error message. > > Well, I do not mean to appear argumentative but I did not see > (gnu service cups) > at the top of the configuration you sent earlier in this thread. > > The variable cups-service-type is defined there [1] and also exported > from there. [2] > > Hope this helps. > > Kind regards > Felix Lechner > > [1] https://github.com/guix-mirror/guix/blob/d0917d778284ee7d70bc80b0538e3b4ae67870f4/gnu/services/cups.scm#L1026-L1060 > [2] https://github.com/guix-mirror/guix/blob/d0917d778284ee7d70bc80b0538e3b4ae67870f4/gnu/services/cups.scm#L38 --