Cups broken and my stomach is upset - Anger Management in Action Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 03:38 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 18:16 +1030, Tim wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 02:12 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > I printed out some plain text documents for my project and then cranked
> > > up gimp to print one graphic page for the cover of the Dvd that I am to
> > > send. Well, what had been just plain ole working about a week or so ago,
> > > started sucking in paper with one line printed saying 
> > > "%!PS-Adobe-3.0
> > >          %%Creator: Print plug-in V4.2.7 - July 2004 for Gimp/Gimp print
> > > 
> > > ... and then proceeded to suck and spit paper out onto the floor. 
> > 
> > I've never had the greatest of luck printing through GIMP, I've resorted
> > to using other programs to print the graphics, at times.  But have you
> > gone through the various print options that GIMP presents (including
> > which drivers, etc.).  It might be GIMP print not CUPS that's at fault.
> 
> That's the helluvit, it worked just a few weeks ago. I managed to get
> the thing to print and it looks like pink and greyscale now. Fairly new
> cartridge for color. I'm going blind on this, and royally peeved. Maybe
> I should take my own advice and just install centOS to get stable. I
> like the folks here, and would rather remain, but my project is ramping
> up into a semblance of a reality and re-inventing the wheel isn't one of
> my strong suites. I'm not a tool builder. I am a user with some modicum
> of experience, so I can usually hack and slash my way around. I had
> several printer selections using the same printer at different print
> resolutions. They're gone. Found a bugzilla on that one. Someone else
> with officially a similar problem. It used to work just fine until
> someone did something and it is home to roost on my machine. Damnit. Now
> it's 3:35 AM on the east coast and I keep hoping I'll fix it. I'm nuts.
> I know I'm not supposed to have "expectations of others", but in this
> case I do. Just print for me reliably. That's all I need, that and a
> good 25 cent cigar. Ric
> 
> 
>   

I guess you found out why Fedora is designed to be a "bleeding edge"
non-stable release. If you want to continue with FC6 I would disable
automatic yum updating, and don't update what seems to work. I had that
problem recently with evolution. But selective updating is a pain in the
neck with Fedora and many other versions of Linux. You could do a CentOS
update and be zapped as well. 
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>