Cups printer config.

[Kam Leo]

On 4/13/06, david walcroft <david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:28 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>
> >>>>    I seem to have had this problem for ages but never did anything about
> >>>> it, If I try to change a setting in http://localhost:631/admin I get
> >>>> this error : 'server-error-internal-error' and the change does not
> >>>> happen,anybody know how to fix it.
> >>> http://localhost:631/admin options are mirrored in the other choices on
> >>> the http://localhost:631 screen, What happens if you try one of the
> >>> others , such as Manage Printers? What exactly are you trying to change
> >>> at http://localhost:631/admin? There is nothing to change there.
> >> I'm not sure what you mean.
> >> I seem to get a whole lot of things I could change on this page,
> >> eg add printer, manager printer, etc.
> >> I'm asked for my CUPS login name and password when I try to do anything,
> >> which I recall don't ever giving.
> >> However, it seems to allow me to proceed with my own name and password,
> >> which seems bizarre.
> > We are getting confused in linguistics. You are correct that there are
> > options than be chosen on that page but not actually changed at that
> > address. In any case you should be using the roo user and the root
> > passwd to make the changes.
> >> CUPS is a marvelous system when it is working,
> >> but it is perversely difficult to set up.
> >> It must have been designed by an alien.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Timothy Murphy
> >> e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> >> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> >> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
> >>
> > =======================================================================
> > Trouble always comes at the wrong time.
> > =======================================================================
> > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210)-999-7484 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
> >
>
> So is the consensus such that nobody knows how to fix this problem? or
> do I go back to 'system-config-printer[-gui]'
>
>    david
>

Back in FC4 there was an incompatibility between cups and
cups-config-deamon. The fix was to disable cups-config-deamon for all
runlevels. You might try doing that. I've already done that on my FC5
system after my printer disappeared.