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. > ---------- How is your printer attached to the computer? Are you trying to print from a remote computer? What does /etc/cups/printers.conf contain? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
