Cups problem

[david walcroft]

david walcroft wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 19:04 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>  
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>    
>>>> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo /sbin/service cups status
>>>>> cups: unrecognized service
>>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>>>>
>>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo tail -n 20 /var/log/cups/error.log
>>>>> tail: cannot open `/var/log/cups/error.log' for reading: No such 
>>>>> file or directory
>>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>> <--------------[ snip ]------------->
>>>    
>>>> OK, you need to register and then start cups...
>>>>
>>>> /sbin/chkconfig cups on
>>>> /sbin/service cups start
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> It looks like the OP is missing something. Even if cups is not
>>> enabled with chkconfig, the service command should still work. It
>>> looks like /etc/init.d/cups script is missing. (I have never checked
>>> to see what happens if the <service> script is there, but not
>>> executable.)
>>>     
>> ----
>> good point - but you are not helping OP with useful things to do
>>
>> David...what is output of ???
>>
>> sudo rpm -qa|grep cups
>> sudo rpm -V cups
>> uname -a
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>   
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ uname -a
> Linux reddwarf 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 18:51:08 EST 2007 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa|grep cups
> cups-pdf-2.4.6-3.fc8.i386
> apcupsd-std-3.10.18-1.i386
> gutenprint-cups-5.0.1-5.fc8.i386
> cups-libs-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386
> libgnomecups-0.2.2-11.fc8.i386
> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -V cups
> package cups is not installed
> [david at reddwarf ~]$     
> And the output of Yum install cups - not good.
>
> [root at reddwarf ~]# yum -y install cups
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package cups.i386 1:1.3.4-4.fc8 set to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> ============================================================================= 
>
> Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        
> Size
> ============================================================================= 
>
> Installing:
> cups                    i386       1:1.3.4-4.fc8    base              
> 3.4 M
>
> Transaction Summary
> ============================================================================= 
>
> Install      1 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
>
> Total download size: 3.4 M
> Downloading Packages:
> YumRepo Warning: not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 
>
> (1/1): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB    
> 00:00
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
> Trying other mirror.
> (1/1): cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 3.4 MB    
> 00:05
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Package does not match intended download
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
> Trying other mirror.
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
> Trying other mirror.
> http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Error Downloading Packages:
>  cups - 1:1.3.4-4.fc8.i386: failure: cups-1.3.4-4.fc8.i386.rpm from 
> base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
> It seems to know which cups to install but cannot find the rpm.
>
>   david
>
>
[david at reddwarf burner]$ sudo rpm -Uvh hal-cups-utils-0.6.13-2.fc8.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
   1:hal-cups-utils         ########################################### 
[100%]
[david at reddwarf burner]$

    david