printer problem fixed -- but why?
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Tue Nov 1 22:03:10 UTC 2005
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:52:33AM -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 08:55 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I'm having trouble getting my Epson Stylus Color 980 printer working on
> > a newly installed FC4 system.
> > Using the Printer Configuration wizard I associated this printer with
> > the default locally connected queue /dev/usb/lp0. I also selected the
> > default driver: Epson Color 980. When I try sending any of the test
> > pages to the printer I get the error message: There was a problem
> > sending the test page to 'Epson980' queue. lpr error -- unable to print
> > file: server error service unavailable.
> > What does this mean and what can I do about it? The printer worked
> > fine when I was running FC3.
> > Thanks for the help!
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> Hello again,
>
> I fixed this problem by making the /etc/hosts file on PuteC (running
> FC4) look like the old one on PuteA (still running FC3). But I was just
> hacking in the dark and don't know why this worked.
> When I installed FC4 on PuteC the /etc/host file looked like this:
>
> 192.168.1.12 PuteC.SMAssociates.com PuteC localhost.localdomain
> localhost
> 192.168.1.11 PuteA.SMAssociates.com PuteA
>
> To get something looking like the FC3 version on PuteA I took out the
> localhost.localdomain and localhost aliases. Now the printer works
> fine. But why?
Why would you expect localhost.localdomain be associated with any ip
address but 127.0.0.1 ?
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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