some progress w/cups

Cynthia Croy yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Sep 23 12:34:01 2002


  I've made some progress with cups since my last post - still not 
enough though.

After searching for every file with "cups" in it with Gnome's search 
tool, I deleted everything it found. Then I downloaded the rpm from YDL 
again and reinstalled. At first I had the same problem (connection 
refused), but "local" and "cups" both had S99, so I changed it so 
"local" was S98 and cups was S99. This was opposite of the way I changed 
it last time - I'm not sure if that made the difference or not, but I'm 
now able to access the web interface and add printers at the command 
line. The printer is configured, I gave it the PPD file from Adobe's web 
site, and it seems as if everything is recognized and set up correctly. 
However, nothing prints. I've tried the test page, a document in 
Abiword, and an Xfig document. I don't get any error messages at the 
time of printing, and the cups printer manager returns that the test 
page was completed.

Looking through the error_log file only revealed one message that looked 
like it might signal a problem:

SendError() 3 code=401

I'm thinking now that this may not be meaningful to my problem since I 
haven't seen one of these in the error log since Sept. 20.

There were several lines with "D" in front of them - which I understand 
means it's a debugging message. Many of them looked like this:

D [20/Sep/2002:21:47:55 -0400] mallinfo: arena = 182008, used = 121816, 
free = 60192

Others looked like they were reporting normal operations: opening and 
closing client, authentication, etc.

This message also looked like it might signify a problem:

DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica Helvetica-Bold Times-Roman

So, my questions are:

1. What is error code 401?
2. Does the DocumentNeededResources message mean that there's a file or 
library missing?
3. Where else might I look to find out a clue to my problem? Is there 
anything else I could look for in the error_log file which signifies an 
error?

If anyone can make sense of my problem, please enlighten me!

Thanks,
Cindy