On 4/13/06, david walcroft <david_walcroft@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:28 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> > >>>> I seem to have had this problem for ages but never did anything about > >>>> it, If I try to change a setting in http://localhost:631/admin I get > >>>> this error : 'server-error-internal-error' and the change does not > >>>> happen,anybody know how to fix it. > >>> http://localhost:631/admin options are mirrored in the other choices on > >>> the http://localhost:631 screen, What happens if you try one of the > >>> others , such as Manage Printers? What exactly are you trying to change > >>> at http://localhost:631/admin? There is nothing to change there. > >> I'm not sure what you mean. > >> I seem to get a whole lot of things I could change on this page, > >> eg add printer, manager printer, etc. > >> I'm asked for my CUPS login name and password when I try to do anything, > >> which I recall don't ever giving. > >> However, it seems to allow me to proceed with my own name and password, > >> which seems bizarre. > > We are getting confused in linguistics. You are correct that there are > > options than be chosen on that page but not actually changed at that > > address. In any case you should be using the roo user and the root > > passwd to make the changes. > >> CUPS is a marvelous system when it is working, > >> but it is perversely difficult to set up. > >> It must have been designed by an alien. > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > >> > > ======================================================================= > > Trouble always comes at the wrong time. > > ======================================================================= > > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210)-999-7484 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > So is the consensus such that nobody knows how to fix this problem? or > do I go back to 'system-config-printer[-gui]' > > david > Back in FC4 there was an incompatibility between cups and cups-config-deamon. The fix was to disable cups-config-deamon for all runlevels. You might try doing that. I've already done that on my FC5 system after my printer disappeared.
