> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rhelv5-list- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Waugh > Sent: 17 March 2010 11:25 > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] print setup gone wrong > > On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:34 +0000, Nick Lunt wrote: > > When we run system-config-printer there is only an expandable list > > entitled "Browsed Queues". > > I expand this and it shows the printers on the system however they > are > > not editable. > > The system-config-printer utility in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 stores > the configuration for the printer queues in "alchemist". The alchemist > configuration is written out to the CUPS configuration files. > > The "Browsed Queues" tree shows queues that are not stored in alchemist > but which are set in the CUPS configuration. > > So for some reason your alchemist data store is now empty but the > queues are still configured in CUPS. > > I'm not sure why that would be. You can use 'printconf-tui --Xexport' > to view the XML file describing the queues as they are configured in > alchemist, but presumably there are no queues defined in it. > > What has changed on that machine since queues were last editable in > system-config-printer? > > Tim. > */
Hi Tim Sounds like your on the right track. The internal raid controller died last week trashing the disks. I reinstalled and restored /etc/cups but I did not know I had to restore alchemist. Do you know what I need to restore to get alchemist to recognise the cups printer queues ? Thanks Nick . __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4951 (20100317) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
