On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 08:45 +1000, david walcroft wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Craig White wrote: > > > > > >>>> I do have cupsd running as shown previously. > >>>> > >>> I haven't read the whole thread, > >>> but I haven't seen any evidence that cupsd is running on your machine. > >>> > >>> What is the output of "ps aux | grep cups" ? > >>> > >>> Also what is the result of "telnet localhost 631"? > >>> And "telnet 127.0.0.1 631"? > >>> > >>> > >>>> My present problem is getting it to accetp the root password > >>>> > >>> I'm not sure what you mean. > >>> If cupsd is running then you should be able to browse to localhost:631 > >>> without giving the superuser password. > >>> > >>> I strongly suspect your problem is much simpler than you think. > >>> > > > > > >> Timothy...you're not helping > >> > >> his packages are screwed up from a completely out of control yum.repos.d > >> folder > >> > >> He needs to fix that, and then update his packages to obtain sanity. > >> > > > > What you say may well be true. > > But I doubt if it has anything to do with his cups problem. > > If cupsd is running then the problem with cups > > is likely to be something very simple - > > eg perhaps the line "Listen localhost:631" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > > has somehow got deleted. > > > > As far as the problem with yum.repos.d is concerned, > > I would have recommended running "grep enabled=1 /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo" > > and seen what repos were enabled (probably very few), > > and disabling all except fedora and fedora-updates. > > > > As far as cups is concerned, I would run "service cups restart" > > and then look in /var/log/cups/error_log > > to see what was reported there. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Cups restarts ok. > > This the last lines after running 'service cups restart' > > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2437! > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2438! > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2439! > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2440! > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2441! > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2442! > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2443! > I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Full reload complete. > I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Cleaning out old temporary files in > "/var/spool/cups/tmp"... > I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 4... > I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on > fd 5... > I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Resuming new connection processing... > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate > "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported > (END) > > This line is repeated every few seconds. > > E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2437! ---- let's leave this until after we get repos and packages together Craig
