More CUPS fun

[Andrew Robinson]

Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
> 
>> Okay, I'm still dealing with this issue where the CUPS service hangs my
>> machine on startup.  I finally got around to doing some digging and
>> here's what I got from /var/log/cups/error_log:
>>
>> W [20/Feb/2005:12:49:20 -0500] LoadDevices: Backend did not respond
>> within 30 seconds!
>>
>> This shows up every time I've tried to re-install the RPMS and when I've
>> compiled from source.  Does this ring a bell with anyone as to why CUPS
>> is killing this system?
> 
> 
> It rings a bell, but I'm not sure my problem was the same. I was getting 
> a similar error because my Samsung laser printer (ML-1710) installed 
> it's own version of linuxprint in /usr/local. I know these two links 
> were part of the solution, but I don't know if they were the entire 
> solution:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 564840 Dec  1 22:52 llpr
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 Dec  2 21:46 llpr.cups -> llpr
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 Dec  1 22:52 lpr -> llpr
> 
> In 15 minutes of looking, I could not find where in the printconf system 
> these links were referenced. I think I added my solution to a bugzilla 
> report, but Bugzilla has such a byzantine search procedure, I can never 
> find the same report twice.
> 

Ah, finally found something. My problem had to do with 
/usr/sbin/alternatives. The bugzilla report that got me on the right 
track to the solution was 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=114243. The command in 
question is: /usr/sbin/alternatives --display print. My solution was to 
create the link /etc/alternatives/print -> 
/usr/local/linuxprinter/bin/llpr.cups.

I hope this helps...

Andrew Robinson