CUPS problem
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Jul 15 22:16:32 UTC 2006
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> This has been driving me batty for a few days now. I'm running FC5
> with KDE as my desktop. All updates are current as of this morning.
> Every time I go into Control Center -> Peripherals -> Printers it says
> it's (trying to) initialize the manager then a few seconds later a
> message comes up:
>
> ----------
> Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from
> manager:
>
> Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is
> correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request failed for an
> unknown reason.
> ----------
How is your printer attached to the computer?
Are you trying to print from a remote computer?
What does /etc/cups/printers.conf contain?
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Timothy Murphy
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