Cups problem

david walcroft d_j_w46 at bigpond.net.au
Thu Dec 13 05:57:15 UTC 2007


Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 19:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>       
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo /sbin/service cups status
>>>> cups: unrecognized service
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>>>
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo tail -n 20 /var/log/cups/error.log
>>>> tail: cannot open `/var/log/cups/error.log' for reading: No such file or 
>>>> directory
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>>>
>>>>         
>> <--------------[ snip ]------------->
>>     
>>> OK, you need to register and then start cups...
>>>
>>> /sbin/chkconfig cups on
>>> /sbin/service cups start
>>>
>>>       
>> It looks like the OP is missing something. Even if cups is not
>> enabled with chkconfig, the service command should still work. It
>> looks like /etc/init.d/cups script is missing. (I have never checked
>> to see what happens if the <service> script is there, but not
>> executable.)
>>     
> ----
> good point - but you are not helping OP with useful things to do
>
> David...what is output of ???
>
> sudo rpm -qa|grep cups
> sudo rpm -V cups
> uname -a
>
> Craig
>
>   
[david at reddwarf ~]$ uname -a
Linux reddwarf 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 18:51:08 EST 2007 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa|grep cups
cups-pdf-2.4.6-3.fc8.i386
apcupsd-std-3.10.18-1.i386
gutenprint-cups-5.0.1-5.fc8.i386
cups-libs-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386
libgnomecups-0.2.2-11.fc8.i386
[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -V cups
package cups is not installed
[david at reddwarf ~]$      

And the output of Yum install cups - not good.

[root at reddwarf ~]# yum -y install cups
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package cups.i386 1:1.3.4-4.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
 cups                    i386       1:1.3.4-4.fc8    base              3.4 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 3.4 M
Downloading Packages:
YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
(1/1): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
[Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
Trying other mirror.
(1/1): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 3.4 MB    00:05
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
[Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
[Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
Trying other mirror.
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
[Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error Downloading Packages:
  cups - 1:1.3.4-4.fc8.i386: failure: cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm from 
base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

It seems to know which cups to install but cannot find the rpm.

   david





More information about the fedora-list mailing list