On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:31, Peter Vollebregt wrote: > John Layt wrote: > > On Friday 03 February 2006 10:56, Peter Vollebregt wrote: > >> John, > >> > >> I had the same problem (and a local printer). Given that cups seemed to > >> be the culprit i thought that upgrading this could help - and indeed it > >> did!. > >> > >> There where no new versions for 2006.0 - so i downloaded > >> cups-1.2.0-0.4964.1mdk.src > >> from cooker and recompiled and installed it on my 2006 system. > >> This has solved the problem completely. > > > > Thanks for those, Peter, but somehow they've made things worse :-( Now > > instead of slow printing, we get no printing with the error message: > > > > An error occurred while retrieving the printer list: > > > > Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is > > correctly installed and running. Error: host not found. > > John, > > Does the cups printermanager work when you open a browser and use as an > address: > http:/localhost:631 or > http://127.0.0.1:631 > > It seems like you have either no cups server installed (only a client) > or that the server is not listening to you: > - either because the loopback network device (lo) is not up (as root > type in 'ifconfig') > - or the server is not listening due to its setup (in cups.conf) > (normally it is with Mandriva) >
It was the cupsd.conf file, the localhost stuff was all stuffed up. By copying an old 2005LE copy of the file over top of the 2006 file everything sprang back to life with no delays. Cheers! John. -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
