Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
>
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:22:54 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote:
>
> > I hope you had a reason to include "--newuse" as, without the "-e" for
> > empty tree it's kinda pointless, I believe.
>
> It's the other way round, --newuse with -e is pointless, as -e
> re-emerges everything anyway. --newuse re-emerges packages that have had a
> change of USE flags since they were previously merged.
>
> Does /dev/lp0 still exist?
file /dev/lp0
/dev/lp0: symbolic link to `printers/0'
>
> What error message do you get when you use lpr?
nothing. It's like it's working. Some times the printer's led flashes like
it's receiveing data, then just dies....
>
> What did you emerge? genlop -l will tell you this (you may need to emerge
> genlop).
OK, I 'emerge genlop'
>
> Knowing what you merged/updated will go a long way to giving a clue as to
> where the fault may lie.
>
OK, Printing worked fine yesterday. I did the emerge string previously
mentioned. 'genlop -l'
Fri Feb 25 16:40:46 2005 --> media-gfx/xfig-3.2.4-r1
Tue Mar 1 07:46:18 2005 --> app-text/ghostscript-afpl-8.14-r1
Tue Mar 1 07:50:09 2005 --> dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1
Tue Mar 1 07:51:26 2005 --> media-libs/freetype-2.1.5-r1
Tue Mar 1 07:51:38 2005 --> dev-java/avalon-logkit-bin-1.2.2
Tue Mar 1 07:52:05 2005 --> dev-java/commons-logging-1.0.4
Tue Mar 1 07:53:33 2005 --> dev-java/xerces-2.6.2-r1
Tue Mar 1 07:53:50 2005 --> dev-java/oro-2.0.8
Tue Mar 1 07:54:11 2005 --> dev-java/commons-net-1.2.2
Tue Mar 1 08:43:10 2005 --> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2
Tue Mar 1 09:23:09 2005 --> x11-libs/qt-3.3.3
Tue Mar 1 09:37:32 2005 --> x11-libs/gtk+-2.4.9-r1
Tue Mar 1 09:38:34 2005 --> dev-lang/nasm-0.98.38
Tue Mar 1 09:39:34 2005 --> media-libs/libmikmod-3.1.11-r1
Tue Mar 1 09:42:50 2005 --> media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r5
Tue Mar 1 09:44:31 2005 --> media-libs/imlib2-1.1.2
Tue Mar 1 09:46:23 2005 --> app-text/sablotron-1.0
Tue Mar 1 09:47:09 2005 --> gnome-base/libglade-2.4.0
Tue Mar 1 09:47:37 2005 --> media-libs/libao-0.8.5
Tue Mar 1 09:48:17 2005 --> media-sound/vorbis-tools-1.0.1
Tue Mar 1 09:50:33 2005 --> media-libs/tunepimp-0.3.0
Tue Mar 1 10:39:50 2005 --> kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.3.1
Tue Mar 1 10:40:32 2005 --> media-libs/xvid-1.0.2
Tue Mar 1 10:41:09 2005 --> media-sound/madplay-0.15.2b
Tue Mar 1 10:50:36 2005 --> media-video/avifile-0.7.41.20041001
Tue Mar 1 15:06:05 2005 --> dev-perl/Time-Duration-1.02
Tue Mar 1 15:06:12 2005 --> app-portage/genlop-0.20.2
I did 'emberge unmerge ghostview' and 'merge ghostview-afpl' earlier today...
Ideas?
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