To do not lock out yourself out of your machine do the following: 0. Make sure that you do not have any hard disk partition which is nearly full with df -k Espcially the partitions containing /tmp, /etc, and /var should not be full. 1. Download the newest version of cups, cups-drivers, and ghostscript from http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ 2. Uninstall the current CUPS version: rpm -e --nodeps cups cups-drivers ghostscript 3. Remove the CUPS configuration and spool directories rm -rf /etc/cups/ rm -rf /var/*/cups/ rm -rf /usr/*/cups/ 4. Install the freshly downloaded CUPS-related packages with rpm -Uvh cups*i586.rpm ghost*i586.rpm 5. Disable automatic loading of CUPS at boot time using chkconfig --del cups So you can simply reboot your machine when it crashes in one of the following steps. 6. Start the CUPS daemon with service cups start 7. Try to install your printer again using printerdrake. Choose the driver which you have chosen the last time. Print the test page when you are asked for. 8. Do print jobs as you do them usually. 9. Log out and log in again. 10. Do more print jobs. 11. Log out and reboot. 12. Log in and start CUPS with service cups start 13. Repeat the steps 8. to 10. 14. If your computer didn't crash, you can make CUPS starting automatically by chkconfig --add cups 15. Reboot to do the final check. If the computer crashed in one of the steps, tell me in which step. Reboot, but do not start CUPS when you have rebooted. Tell me which printer driver you have chosen and send me: /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd, /etc/cups/printers.conf, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Try LPD by doing the following steps: 0. Do the check of the hard disk space again, tell me the results. 1. Uninstall CUPS with rpm -e --nodeps cups cups-drivers 2. Install LPD with urpmi lpr rhs-printfilters 3. Turn off automatic startup of LPD by: chkconfig --del lpd 4. Start LPD with service lpd start 5. Configure your printer with printerdrake -lpr 6. Do print jobs as you do them usually. 7. Log out and log in again. 8. Do more print jobs. 9. Log out and reboot. 10. Log in and start LPD with service lpd start 11. Repeat the steps 6. to 8. 12. If your computer didn't crash, you can make LPD starting automatically by chkconfig --add lpd 15. Reboot to do the final check. If your computer crashed, tell me which driver you used this time. Send me /etc/printcap and all files in /var/spool/lpd/<printer name>/. If the computer crashed in both cases, ther must be any problem with the support of your USB port (motherboard chipset) with Linux. Then I will inform our kernel people to check your problem. I have an HP DeskJet 840C connected to the USB port and it works without any problems. Till Tom Berkley wrote: > > Interesting crash here after I tried this method with my 7.2 Mandrake > installation. I have an hp895Cxi inkjet printer connected to the usb > port on my abit bp6 board (ru bios). When I configured the printer and > ran a test print. The computer locked up (stopped responding). On > reboot, the printer started printing the test page but with a lot of > garbage characters throughout the output(got the same type of output > during the printer installation during the mandrake 7.2 install). In > addition I could not login. The graphical login screen refused to accept > the password input (ie nothing typed entered the password window which > usually shows asterisks when you type the password == weird!). After a > long session of trying to login (linux single, console login, ... > .......) I just do not remember how I finally got in to the system, but > I did and deleted the print queue, deleted the files in the spooler, > shutdown cupsd, reconfigured the boot to not start cups and it'll be a > long time before I try that one again. > > The printer setup and the usb work just fine with win98se. Also usbview > shows the usb setup with the printer attached both in redhat 7.0 and > mandrake 7.2. > > I think that for now I will use samba to run the printer off a windows > box than to suffer through another ordeal with mandrake and cups. Great > idea cups, but it does have a few serious defects, yet. >
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