On 16-Jan-2001 Jerry Sternesky wrote:
> It seems I am having lots of problems with cups. When I installed
> Mandrake 7.2, it found my epson 777 printer and set it up as a 740.
> There were no drivers for 777. I got a great test page and since then
> I haven't been able to do a thing with it.
My LM7.2 install didn't find my old HP Deskjet 520 on lp0 so I tried to
setup printing post install. I'm on a simple single non-networked box.
> It seems that the cups dameon just stops running.
I was getting the same thing. IIRC, somewhere in the docs it mentioned
that some minutes after you start the daemon, it checks back with
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf but I could be way off base here. Nonetheless,
manually editing cupsd.conf fixed the dying daemon problem for me. None of
the config tools would worked because the install left me with an unusable
cupsd.conf file .... entries like ServerName were still remmed out. I
could start the daemon (# /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups start), but, like
you say, it would die after a few minutes.
> After I start the machine I do a service cups status, I get back it's
> running and a pid number. After about 5 minutes, the status returns
> cups is stopped. I restart it and 5 minutes later it's stopped. I am
> really at a loss here.
Unless Till (he's the resident CUPS guru) has the fix for you, I'd
suggest you first take a quick look at your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file ...
along with a 'man cupsd.conf'.
> When I use a client and netscpae to connect to http://"server":631 I get
> to the cups setup and the printer is there and configured, but I am
> unable to print a test page because server.domain.com not located, so I
> know I have a network issue to resolve with addressing
I could well be wrong, but this sounds more and more like a bum
entry in your cupsd.conf file.
> Since I will be scouring how-to's and faq's if anyone has some good
> ones besides the ones on mandrakeuser.org to point me to I would
> appreciate it.
There's a pile of FAQ's here:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/mysearch.php3?author=till
plus the various resources at:
http://www.cups.org
> BTW this machine is current as of 1/15 with all the updates for 7.2.
Pretty well the same thing here, so .....
I should also mention that I'm pretty certain PrinterDrake or Drakprint
or whatever it's called is broken. Going that route, you'd be asked to
insert your install CD, and, without warning, the program would proceed to
wipe out your updated Ghostscript rpms, replace them with the ones from
the CD, and promptly barf. Myself and at least two others have "been
there, done that".
Do let us know how you get this worked out because, as you can see, the
whole mess isn't particularly clear to me either, and there aren't a
whole lot of people jumping in with concise solutions. Personally, I'm
ready to revert back to the old lpd/lpr system because the two fonts I
most often use for printing from Wordperfect come out slightly better the
old way.
--
dave.
