ydl2.3 questions: Nautilus and CUPS

[Dan Burcaw]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 09:36, R Shapiro wrote:
> I downloaded the 2.3 installer over the weekend and now I can finally
> run something later than 2.1 on my Quicksilver 867 (2.2 doesn't
> install on that platform).  Most things have gone smoothly; two, so
> far, have not: Nautilus and CUPS.
> 
> 1. Nautilus refuses to run, complaing about gconf
> 
> Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
> 
>   Failed to contact configuration server (a likely cause of this is
>   that you have an existing configuration server (gconfd) running, but
>   it isn't reachable from here - if you're logged in from two machines
>   at once, you may need to enable TCP networking for ORBit)

Check that your time is set right. Various GNOME things act strange
when the time is not set right.

> 
> 2.  I configured a remote lpr printer in CUPS, an HP LaserJet 8150
> accessible from a server running on a Solaris host.  If I attempt to
> print anything at all, CUPS says the job completed successfully, the
> printer waits awhile and then prints an error page telling me the
> connection timed out.  I have no problem whatever talking to this
> printer from my YDL 2.1 installation, which uses the old LPR package.

Try a different driver. We got a HP LaserJet to work here with cups
remotely...