some progress w/cups

Chris Ruprecht yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Sep 24 21:44:00 2002


I uninstalled klpq and klprfax and cups which came with YDL 2.3 and then=20
installed cups from rpmfind.net.

Now, I'm printing just fine ...

Regards,
Chris

On Mon September 23 2002 14:46, Cynthia Croy wrote:
>   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 change=
d
> 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 we=
b
> 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 looke=
d
> like it might signal a problem:
>
> SendError() 3 code=3D401
>
> 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 =3D 182008, used =3D 121=
816,
> free =3D 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
>
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