new fc6 install in cups hel^Hck. "connection to cups server failed"
Tim Waugh
twaugh at redhat.com
Mon Apr 16 18:04:09 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 13:23 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> Anyway I haven't set up my normal user accounts yet, That happens as
> soon as I get the printer working. So I did startx as root. then found
> the printer menu choice, I think it was:
> kmenu->settings?->printer
> the print manager opened and promptly gave me the following error message(s):
>
> Error Unable to retrieve the printer list.
>
> connection to cups server failed
>
> check that CUPS is installed and running
>
> IPP request failed for unknown reason
What does 'lpstat -s' say? That will show whether CUPS really is
running.
> so I did a yum install cups which offered an update. But the results
> were the same...
What does this command say?:
rpm -q cups kdelibs
Finally, what does this command give as its output? (run it as root):
grep -v ^# /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
Tim.
*/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20070416/6c07d2f2/attachment-0002.bin
More information about the users
mailing list