On Friday 06 October 2006 2:03 pm, Damir Perisa wrote:
> Le vendredi 6 octobre 2006 19:40, Greg Meyer a écrit :
>  |  An error occurred while retrieving the printer list:
>  |
>  |   Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is
>  | correctly     installed and running. Error: localhost: read failed
>  | (15).
>  |
>  | In my case, cups is running, I can connect through
>  | http://localhost:631 and I can print from non-kde apps
>
> this is not the first time that kde and cups versions does not work
> together. a general workaround solves it: in Kcontrol under periphery
> and under printers, switch the printing system (bottom of dialogue)
> from CUPS to generic LPD unix printing system (i have now french kde
> running so i cannot give you english names but you will for sure
> find)
>
> and once kde or cups gest updated, you can try to switch it back.
>
It looks like what happened was that the 9-22 update to cups trashed 
my /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.  It was totally different than the previous one that 
I hand formatted and it was missing an entry for DefaultAuthType.  Once I set  
this to basic, everything worked like it was supposed to.

I'm a bit peeved that something overwrote a configuration file that was 
changed from the default.  Isn't the default behavior of pacman to check and 
see if the file has changed, and if it has create a .pacnew file instead of 
overwriting the live conf file?
-- 
Greg

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