Cups problem

[Karl Larsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 08:45 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>     
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>>> I do have cupsd running as shown previously.
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I haven't read the whole thread,
>>>>> but I haven't seen any evidence that cupsd is running on your machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the output of "ps aux | grep cups" ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also what is the result of "telnet localhost 631"?
>>>>> And "telnet 127.0.0.1 631"?
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> My present problem is getting it to accetp the root password
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I'm not sure what you mean.
>>>>> If cupsd is running then you should be able to browse to localhost:631
>>>>> without giving the superuser password.
>>>>>
>>>>> I strongly suspect your problem is much simpler than you think.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Timothy...you're not helping
>>>>
>>>> his packages are screwed up from a completely out of control yum.repos.d
>>>> folder
>>>>
>>>> He needs to fix that, and then update his packages to obtain sanity.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> What you say may well be true.
>>> But I doubt if it has anything to do with his cups problem.
>>> If cupsd is running then the problem with cups 
>>> is likely to be something very simple -
>>> eg perhaps the line "Listen localhost:631" in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>>> has somehow got deleted.
>>>
>>> As far as the problem with yum.repos.d is concerned,
>>> I would have recommended running "grep enabled=1 /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo"
>>> and seen what repos were enabled (probably very few),
>>> and disabling all except fedora and fedora-updates.
>>>
>>> As far as cups is concerned, I would run "service cups restart"
>>> and then look in /var/log/cups/error_log
>>> to see what was reported there.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Cups restarts ok.
>>
>> This the last lines after running 'service cups restart'
>>
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2437!
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2438!
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2439!
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2440!
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2441!
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2442!
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2443!
>> I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Full reload complete.
>> I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Cleaning out old temporary files in 
>> "/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
>> I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 4...
>> I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on 
>> fd 5...
>> I [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Resuming new connection processing...
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate 
>> "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
>> (END)                                     
>>
>> This line is repeated every few seconds.
>>
>> E [17/Dec/2007:08:39:38 +1000] Missing <Job #> directive on line 2437!
>>     
> ----
> let's leave this until after we get repos and packages together
>
> Craig
>
>   
    I think your right. This guy could have loaded F8 from scratch and 
kept his old F2 just for fun. There are over 60 Re: Cups problem on the 
list now.


Karl


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