Re: Cups problem

Craig White wrote:

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 19:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

Craig White wrote:

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo /sbin/service cups status
cups: unrecognized service
[david@reddwarf ~]$

[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo tail -n 20 /var/log/cups/error.log

tail: cannot open `/var/log/cups/error.log' for reading: No such file or directory

[david@reddwarf ~]$

<--------------[ snip ]------------->

OK, you need to register and then start cups...

/sbin/chkconfig cups on
/sbin/service cups start

It looks like the OP is missing something. Even if cups is not
enabled with chkconfig, the service command should still work. It
looks like /etc/init.d/cups script is missing. (I have never checked
to see what happens if the <service> script is there, but not
executable.)

----
good point - but you are not helping OP with useful things to do

David...what is output of ???

sudo rpm -qa|grep cups
sudo rpm -V cups
uname -a

Craig

[david@reddwarf ~]$ uname -a

[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa|grep cups
cups-pdf-2.4.6-3.fc8.i386
apcupsd-std-3.10.18-1.i386
gutenprint-cups-5.0.1-5.fc8.i386
cups-libs-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386
libgnomecups-0.2.2-11.fc8.i386
[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -V cups
package cups is not installed

And the output of Yum install cups - not good.

[root@reddwarf ~]# yum -y install cups
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cups.i386 1:1.3.4-4.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
cups                    i386       1:1.3.4-4.fc8    base              3.4 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 3.4 M
Downloading Packages:

(1/1): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00

Trying other mirror.
(1/1): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 3.4 MB    00:05

Trying other mirror.

Trying other mirror.

Trying other mirror.

Trying other mirror.
Error Downloading Packages:

It seems to know which cups to install but cannot find the rpm.

  david