Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 12:21 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 10:05 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 09:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>>>   
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> I forgot to answer did I use --nodeps,no I didn't mainly because I did
>>>>>> know it was necessary.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> ----
>>>>> It shouldn't ever be necessary to use --nodeps
>>>>>
>>>>> That's how you broke things in the first place.
>>>>>
>>>>> If cups service is started (and didn't quit), you should be able to
>>>>> use...
>>>>>
>>>>> Administration => Printing
>>>>>
>>>>> and set up your printer now
>>>>>
>>>>> make sure it can print a test page from that configuration tool before
>>>>> you try printing with any other program
>>>>>
>>>>> Craig
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> I don't have an 'Administration => Printing' in KDE,I'm into
>>>> 'localhost:631'
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> yum install system-config-printer
>>> ----
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>  but am having problems now with password
>>>> and username,cups won't accept anything.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> root and root's password
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> [root at reddwarf ~]# sudo rpm -qa | grep printer
>> system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386
>> [root at reddwarf ~]#
>>
>>
>> yum install system-config-printer
>>
>> No package system-config-printer available.
>> Nothing to do.
>>     
> ----
> can't possibly be true...
>
> # rpm -qa|grep system-config-printer
> system-config-printer-0.7.74.4-3.fc8
> system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8
>
> try...
>
> yum clean all
> yum install system-config-printer
> ----
>   
>> Root and Roots password do no work.
>>     
> ----
> I presume this in reference to logging into cups via firefox and
> connecting to
>
> http://localhost:631
>
> root and root's password always work
>
> Craig
>
>   
[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum clean all
Cleaning up Everything
[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo yum install system-config-printer
YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 
baseurl=ftp://reddwarf:4skin46@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/
YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 
failovermethod=priority
http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
updates-released                                                 26 kB 00:00
http://planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates-released: Damaged 
repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
updates-released          100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386
base                      100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    00:00
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for base: Damaged repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
base                      100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 914 kB    00:01
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package system-config-printer available.
Nothing to do
[david at reddwarf ~]$ su -
Password:
[root at reddwarf ~]# rpm -qa|grep system-config-printer
system-config-printer-libs-0.7.74.4-3.fc8.i386
[root at reddwarf ~]#  

I still cannot get root acess into cups:631 via firefox.

  david