Re: Cups problem

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On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:57 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> 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
> Linux reddwarf 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 18:51:08 EST 2007 i686 
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> [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
> [david@reddwarf ~]$      
> 
> 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:
> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
> (1/1): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
> Trying other mirror.
> (1/1): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 3.4 MB    00:05
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
> Trying other mirror.
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Error Downloading Packages:
>   cups - 1:1.3.4-4.fc8.i386: failure: cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm from 
> base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> 
> It seems to know which cups to install but cannot find the rpm.
----
that usually can be fixed by clearing yum cache.

why you removed cups with a --nodeps is beyond my comprehension but the
following might work...

yum clean all
yum install cups
yum update

Try that and see if it installs cups

Craig


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