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RE: Read this

fingers99 — Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:29 pm

Author: fingers99

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:29 pm

If you want to avoid the pain of a Debian install, you might like to try Kanotix. Nice easy installer and you can see if you can get the printer up from the live CD.

RE: Read this

towy71 — Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:24 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:24 pm

Would try that but ubuntu/kubuntu only provide root access via sudo, am at the moment having a go at installing debian sarge cos I do want to have more control. I have always wanted a Debian install for philosophical reasons but was put off by having a nasty installer but I realise now that ubuntu uses the sarge installer!

Maybe next week when I have time I will finally bite the bullet and have a go at <quiver>Gentoo</quiver>
yours in jelly
Dick
ps the reason for all this playing about is that I now have broadband

RE: Read this

fingers99 — Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:03 pm

Author: fingers99

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:03 pm

Just a thought, instead of sudo, have you tried it as root?

Read this

sweet72 — Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:11 pm

Author: sweet72

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:11 pm

Here's a short article for you to look at:

http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L230

Re: cups printing problem

Anonymous — Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:55 pm

Author: Anonymous

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:55 pm

Try this article:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html

It is written by no less than the veteran Eric Reymonds!

Re: cups printing problem

towy71 — Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:43 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 4:43 pm

I thought that maybe re-installing the entire kubuntu might fix it. Did that this morning, updated and upgraded, and it seems to be something in KDE both konqueror and kcmshell crash when starting print manager. I have filed a bug report because I replicate the crash each time I try to start it!
hohum
Dcik

Re: cups printing problem

towy71 — Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:05 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:05 am

afraid not, but it has gone on the backburner cos at least I can print

Re: cups printing problem

lxfadmin — Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:49 am

Author: lxfadmin

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:49 am

have you sorted this problem now?

Re: cups printing problem

towy71 — Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:34 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:34 pm

thanks nelz, just wanted a point in the right direction.

Re: cups printing problem

nelz — Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:32 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:32 pm

/etc/cups/cupsd.conf should show the location of the log files. Check these for any reasons why the connection was refused. You may need to raise the logging level.

Re: cups printing problem

towy71 — Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:36 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:36 am

anybody?
TIA

Re: cups printing problem

towy71 — Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:10 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:10 pm

that is is just too big a download!

Re: cups printing problem

evilnick — Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:06 pm

Author: evilnick

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:06 pm

It would probably help. Try :

Code:

apt-get install overbearing_sense_of_doom

RE: cups printing problem

towy71 — Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:02 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:02 pm

thanks Nick
do I have to get super-paranoid too?

RE: cups printing problem

evilnick — Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:00 pm

Author: evilnick

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:00 pm

Bah, dratted super-paranoid debian-types. I can't check for you at the moment. Maybe someone else can help in the meantime, otherwise I'll take a look tomorrow.