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 _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
