Problem setting up printer on FC3

[Tim Waugh]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:48:56PM +0000, Adam Mercer wrote:

> > > [ram at skymoo ~]$ system-config-printer
> > > sh: line 1:  5375 Segmentation fault      perl -e
> > > 'ioctl(STDIN,0x84005001,$result);print $result' 2>/dev/null
> > > </dev/usb/lp0
> > 
> > What does 'dmesg' show?  Looks like the kernel oopsed to me.
> 
> Hi
> 
> This is going back about a month, but I've started having the same
> problem again.
> 
> When I get the error from system-config-printer, the only messages in
> dmesg are regarding hits from my firewall.

Well, does that command also fail when you run it directly as root?:

perl -e 'ioctl(STDIN,0x84005001,$result);print $result' </dev/usb/lp0

Tim.
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