On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 12:03 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > This has been driving me batty for a few days now. I'm running FC5 > with KDE as my desktop. All updates are current as of this morning. > Every time I go into Control Center -> Peripherals -> Printers it says > it's (trying to) initialize the manager then a few seconds later a > message comes up: > > ---------- > Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from > manager: > > Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is > correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request failed for an > unknown reason. > ---------- > > Now I searched google for that error and it seems a lot of people > are having that same problem, and not only on Fedora. And I couldn't > find a solution to this either. > > CUPS is running, so I don't quite understand the issue, nor how to > solve it. Looking in /var/log/cups/error_log I see this error message: > > E [15/Jul/2006:11:58:37 -0600] CUPS-Get-Printers > client-error-not-found: No destinations added. > > And in access_log I see this: > > localhost - - [15/Jul/2006:11:58:37 -0600] "POST /printers/ > HTTP/1.1" 200 112 CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found > > I've been trying to get my Lexmark printer installed but until I can > solve this problem I can't proceed with anything else. > Ashley, I have not tried to install a printer using kde, but when I used the printer-gui module of gnome I was unable to get things working properly. I had to remove the printers installed by printer-gui, and used the cups installation software by using the link: httpd://localhost:631 cups has been a bear to get working over the internet with remote connections but once I got it set up properly it has been very seamless and good. Good Luck!!! Greg
