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WoMbah

2004-07-23, 7:50 am

Hello there,

I just went from a fully working FC1 to FC2 and I tried to add a printer
using:

1. system-config-printer-gui: this app just hangs.

2.system-config-printer-tui:

Initializing alchemist edit environment ...
Initializing linux printing database ...

I can add printers, but cannot print a test
page. As soon as I make a change, it just hangs. I tried to print from
within an application, but that fails.

3. http://127.0.0.1:631 --> no go. It hangs for ages when I try to add a
printer this way.

Oh, something else: I can not launch OpenOffice Writer: it too just hangs
and I have to ctrl-alt-backspace ... Mozilla-1.6 also hangs after being
launched.

Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Robert

Sandgroper

2004-07-23, 5:52 pm


"WoMbah" <wombah@zazoozah.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.07.23.15.43.22.807137@zazoozah.com...
> Hello there,
>
> I just went from a fully working FC1 to FC2 and I tried to add a printer
> using:
>
> 1. system-config-printer-gui: this app just hangs.
>
> 2.system-config-printer-tui:
>
> Initializing alchemist edit environment ...
> Initializing linux printing database ...
>
> I can add printers, but cannot print a test
> page. As soon as I make a change, it just hangs. I tried to print from
> within an application, but that fails.
>
> 3. http://127.0.0.1:631 --> no go. It hangs for ages when I try to add a
> printer this way.
>
> Oh, something else: I can not launch OpenOffice Writer: it too just hangs
> and I have to ctrl-alt-backspace ... Mozilla-1.6 also hangs after being
> launched.
>
> Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated.


To add a printer , at a console , type
printtool
This will start up a GUI and you will be able to configure your printer.
( I used this yesterday on FC 2 to add a samba printer )



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Zartemba

2004-07-23, 5:52 pm


Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:

Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly
installed and running. Error: the IPP request failed for an unknow reason.

The CUPS daemon is running and I did: /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd restart to be
sure. Same error over and over. I could not connect to localhost:631 and
there is no firewall blocking this port.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:31:56 +0800, Sandgroper wrote:

>
> "WoMbah" <wombah@zazoozah.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.07.23.15.43.22.807137@zazoozah.com...
>
> To add a printer , at a console , type
> printtool
> This will start up a GUI and you will be able to configure your printer.
> ( I used this yesterday on FC 2 to add a samba printer )


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