[KLUG Members] gnumeric problem

[Ralph M. Deal]

Sage Adam Williams and his friend RoseMary wrote:


>> I assume gnome-print is installed?  gnumeric uses gnome-print to
> enumerate fonts,  it might be worth doing a force re-install of that
> package.

gnome-print WAS installed (I had checked it earlier) but --replacepkgs
forced a new loading after which gnumeric HAD all the fonts I could hope
for.  Sage indeed.

> Use "xlsfonts" on the command
> line to see what fonts are available to the X server.  "gfontsel" lets
> you browse the available fonts.

Wonderful commands about which I had never heard... where does one learn
of such apparently esoteric tools?
 
> The USB port thing is interesting,  but I think a red herring.  That is
> probably too many levels down to generate an error in producing output
> from gnumeric.  Gnumeric should still produce the print job and pass it
> to lpd,  and if the hardware level is munged you'd see the print job
> sitting there with "lpq"

lpq had given an error message before - normal now!
 
> >since I have an ancient system and take care of ifconfig showing no lo, as
> >well as the printing and gnumeric problems.
> 
> No lo?!  That should break lots of things.

This may take care of many problems.
 
> Does /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo exists?

Yes, but only as one line:
BOOTPROTO=none

> If not create it with the following content -
> 
> DEVICE=lo
> IPADDR=127.0.0.1
> NETMASK=255.0.0.0
> NETWORK=127.0.0.0
> # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian,
> # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example)
> BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
> ONBOOT=yes
> NAME=loopback

BINGO!  after ifup lo, lo now shows up AND the printer works!!!

> Then do "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup lo" and see what happens.
> Networking is enabled for your run level?  Do you have any other network
> interfaces up?  Does NETWORKING=yes in /etc/sysconfig/network?

Yes, it does, despite my belonging to no network other than the
internet.
I believe this is the result of my having compiled NFS into my kernel in
my RH6.2.  How do I fix that - a recompile of the kernel?

Thanks, Adam!    Ralph   deal@kzoo.edu