Re: Cups problem

Aaron Konstam wrote:

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 14:48 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

Craig White wrote:

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 12:21 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

Craig White wrote:

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 10:05 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

Craig White wrote:

On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote:

I forgot to answer did I use --nodeps,no I didn't mainly because I did
know it was necessary.

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It shouldn't ever be necessary to use --nodeps

That's how you broke things in the first place.

If cups service is started (and didn't quit), you should be able to
use...

Administration => Printing

and set up your printer now

make sure it can print a test page from that configuration tool before
you try printing with any other program

Craig

I don't have an 'Administration => Printing' in KDE,I'm into
'localhost:631'

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yum install system-config-printer
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 but am having problems now with password
and username,cups won't accept anything.

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root and root's password

Craig

[root@reddwarf ~]# sudo rpm -qa | grep printer
system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386
[root@reddwarf ~]#


yum install system-config-printer

No package system-config-printer available.
Nothing to do.

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can't possibly be true...

# rpm -qa|grep system-config-printer
system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8
system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8

try...

yum clean all
yum install system-config-printer
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Root and Roots password do no work.

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I presume this in reference to logging into cups via firefox and
connecting to

http://localhost:631

root and root's password always work

Craig

[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum install system-config-printer

YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - baseurl=ftp://reddwarf:4skin46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/ YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - failovermethod=priority http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Trying other mirror.
updates-released                                                 26 kB 00:00

http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates-released: Damaged repomd.xml file

Trying other mirror.
updates-released          100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01

YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386

base                      100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file

Trying other mirror.
base                      100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package system-config-printer available.
Nothing to do
[david@reddwarf ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@reddwarf ~]# rpm -qa|grep system-config-printer
system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386

[root@reddwarf ~]#

I still cannot get root acess into cups:631 via firefox.

  david

Getting access to localhost:631 has nothing to do with having
system-config-printer install led.  There is something wrong with you
repos in that you can't install system-config-printer.

Is there a localhost defined in your /etc/hosts file and is cupsd
running is what is essential. Previously you did not have cupsd running.
ps aux |grep cupsd. Does it show cupsd running. We are discussing two
different ways to install printers as if they are the same. They are
not.
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[root@reddwarf yum.repos.d]# ps aux |grep cupsd
root      3384  0.0  0.0   4044   680 pts/1    S+   10:01   0:00 grep cupsd
root     26999  0.0  0.2   9968  3016 ?        Ss   Dec15   0:01 cupsd
[root@reddwarf yum.repos.d]#

[david@reddwarf ~]$ sudo vim /etc/hosts
[david@reddwarf ~]

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.

192.168.0.1     reddwarf.localdomain   192.168.0.1
#

I used vim just in case I had set up wrong

Thanks for helping me Tim it's much appreciated.

 david