Cups error - "An error occurred while retrieving the printer list. ": why ?

[Mark Ryden]

Anne,
>Ha
ve you tried restarting CUPS?
>service cups restart (in a root terminal)

Yes. It did not change anything ; I got the same error;
(It is mentioned in my message)

Mark


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On 12/31/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sunday 31 December 2006 10:15, Mark Ryden wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a machine with newly installed  Fedora Core 6 (i386).
> > I had ran "yum update" on that machine.
> >
> > When starting kprinter I get the following error message:
> >
> > An error occurred while retrieving the printer list.
> >
> > Connection to CUPS server failed.
> > Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running.
> > Error: the IPP request failed for an unknown reason.
> >
> > service cups restart does not change anything.
> > rpm -q cups
> > cups-1.2.7-1.3.fc6
> >
> > There is NO firewall running on that machine.
> >
> > I also ran "tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log" when starting kprinter,
> > yet I don't see any message in that log when kprinter is starting.
> >
> > It is a fresh installation of Fedora Core 6. I did NOT yet installed
> > printers using cups/kprinter on that machine.
> >
> > I can enter the web interface from a firefox browser by:
> >   http://127.0.0.1:631 without any erros or problems.
> >
> > Any idea what can cause this error message?
> >
> Have you tried restarting CUPS?
>
> service cups restart (in a root terminal)
>
> Anne
>
>
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