[KLUG Members] Re: [mdlug] CUPS inaccessible/XSane error

[Robert G. Brown]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:01:01 -0400, Peter Bart wrote:

>	My adventure continues. It appears I had in fact removed cups from my
>/etc/init.d file. 
You may have removed a lot of other cups related stuff.

>So, a very knowledgeable person helped me download,
>compile, and install the latest cups from cups.org. Now I am able to
>access localhost:631 and see the printer installed.  cupsd now resides
>in /home/peter/downloads as does lpd. I'm pretty sure they doesn't
>belong there.
It is probably still there as a result of the build process. You might 
want to delete it all from there and make sure it all still works. The
install process has copies the components needed elsewhere, so you are
most probably all right in that regard. I generally use tar to archive
it all in compressedform, delete the stuff on the user account, and then
make sure things are OK.

However when I try to print a test page from localhost
>it tells me
>
>"DCP7020 (Default Printer) "Printer not connected; will retry in 30
>seconds..."
So hook up your printer already! :)

>Now to confuse things further I must start cups manually, it doesn't
>start on boot. 
cupsd needs to e included in the services that start when the system does.
That's either a YASY issue, or it can be configured using the chkconfig
utility (as root, please).

>Neither does cupsd, I think. The following commands
>were issued and the results. 

>> linux:/etc/init.d # /etc/init.d/cups restart
This command should be sufficient.

>> linux:/etc/init.d # cupsd
You don't need this one, that's essentially what the other command
does.

At the moment I can't say much about the rest of your difficulties, 
except to state that you need to consider the scanner and printer
problems as essentially different tasks. Solve one, then work on
solving the other. As you can see from a recent post of mine, I have
some minor problems with CUPS and printer access, but that is a
rather different problem that the one you are having.

						Regards,
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