Yes, Ed. I understand this is not Mandrake Support. append=" devfs=nomount <----appears in my lilo.conf
but I've had it both ways. Rob ---------------------------------- On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:32:57 -0500 Ed Tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |so, Rob, just to be sure you understand, this is NOT mandrake - support. this |is a group of folks that are working on getting there own linux boxes the way |they want, and since that has required a learning process, some have decided |to hang around and offer up what little gems they "think" they have learned. |I do not believe the paid employees of Mandrake who do happen to monitor this |list do so because it is in their "job description" to read either the expert |or newbie mail list. |that said, (in other words I probly won't be able to help, but maybe we can |work thru this and some other floks might chime in), are you booting with |"devfs mount"? or "devfs nomount" in your lilo.conf? | |On Friday 21 December 2001 21:27, you wrote: |> Greetings once again, |> |> Well, suffice it to say, no one has chimed in with any suggestions yet. I |> have another clue which my eyes noticed during the boot process last night, |> for what it's worth. Don't know if this means anything since I had |> problems configuring printing during the reinstall/upgrade-type but here it |> is. The boot screen scrolls by the following: |> |> Quote - |> Loading parralel port printer modules devfs: devfs_register_(): device |> already registered "0" Starting CUPS printing system: lpd: warning -** |> cannot open: /var/log/lp-errs (): - 'permission denied' warning: -cannot |> start lp device: /dev/lp0: -permission denied Unquote - |> |> I've checked all the /var/log files I can find and I can detect no reason |> for the problem. Again, upon an attempted re-install as reported below, it |> didn't appear that I had a successful installation of the printer. |> |> Still open for any suggestions. |> |> Rob |> |> Begin forwarded message: |> |> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:59:07 -0500 |> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> Subject: Fw: Yet another printing question |> |> |> Greetings again all... |> |> Having seen no response to the below, I "reinstalled/upgraded" tonight and |> paid particular attention to the printer configuration. In a nutshell, I |> could not get CUPS to accept/configure my printer (and I chose all, |> alternatives that were available for my HP DeskJet 970Cse), the result each |> time was "An error occurred - foomatic-configure failed." So I chose |> lprng. At least I was able to get a test page to print fine during the |> "install" process from the CD installation routine. However, I still |> cannot print...nothing happens. MDK 8.0 was fine. Did something funny |> change relative to printing between 8.0 and 8.1? I don't understand why |> printing seems to be such rocket science in Linux. |> |> Rob |> |> Begin forwarded message: |> |> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:26:50 -0500 |> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> Subject: Yet another printing question |> |> |> Greetings all, |> |> I have been struggling to get printing to work ever since I installed MDK |> 8.1. It appears that my printer is recognized (or at least is reflected by |> name in the configuration files I've checked) leading me to believe I have |> a CUPS problem. Indeed, when I try (as root) in a terminal window to bring |> up KUPS, I receive the following: |> |> "Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the |> authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based |> authentication failed DCOPServer up and running. |> language: C" |> |> The Kups window then comes up but nothing is reflected as an installed |> printer. |> |> Anyone have any experience with this? I've reinstalled once (as an update) |> with the same results. |> |> Thanks in advance. |> |> Rob | |
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