Hi everybody,
Pretext: I'm fairly new to linux and only have little experience with
console.

I just finished installing mandriva 2006 (Free) on my PC and everything
works fine. Only problem is I cant print. Everytime I run the KDE
printerdrake the I get the message that it tries to install packages
but nothing happens. After some while the window remains gray.

I tried to run cups from the console (as root) and I always get "child
exits on signal 15!" (whatever this means). I uninstalled cups and
reinstalled it with urpmi/urpme - yet the problem remains.

I've followed the instructions for the installation of my Brother DCP
7010 printer and installed the appropriate packages Brother provides to
use this printer with linux. I also installed the scanner driver which
works perfectly. SO I guess it's rather a problem of cups.

When call localhost:631 I do get the cups webfrontend but I am unable
to make anychanges : Whenever I click one of the options the template
of cups remains empty (I only get "{title}") And installing a printer
on the webfrontend doesnot help either (after posting the printer form
the browser tries to load the following page like forever (I waited
10mins before stopping))

Anybody has an idea? I'm desperate! Don't want to have to reboot to
windows just to print. ..

TIA

Chris

jeff harris

<snip>

Try this:
Open /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and search for "port 631" (without quotes)
You may have two instances of this line, and you can only have one,
thus the error message.
Jeff
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aragorn

On Friday 24 February 2006 14:15, cvh@cpi-service.com stood up and spoke
the following words to the masses in /alt.os.linux.mandriva...:/

Well, let's see what we can do... ;-)

That would be a sign of something crashing and the window not getting
cleaned up. At least, if I read you correctly...


It's a crash...


By that, I take it you mean that you reinstalled from the CD's or DVD
you've burned?


It may be so, but it already starts sounding like there's something
wrong with your installation media, and I have a feeling that I know
what... - see below...

My guess is that your download of the /.iso/ files was corrupt. This
happens sometimes. The only way to be sure that your download was okay
is to check either the signatures or the /md5sums./

On the /ftp/ download mirror, you will see a file called /md5sums.txt/
or something similar, e.g. the name of the /.iso/ file but with an
additional /.md5/ at the end.

You should download that file as well and then check the /md5sums/ of
the downloaded ./iso/ images against what's in the file. There are
/md5sum/ checkers for Windows and DOS, freely available for download.

The second thing advice is to burn your images to quality media, and at
a low speed, e.g. 2x. This will guarantee that the burn is good and
that your CD's or DVD will still be usable - say - two years from now.

Either way, make sure the speed is set low enough for the media and for
the burner. I wouldn't go above 4x. What's a few minutes extra if it
saves you from making a bad burn (or a nice coaster), right? ;-)

Hope this was helpful... ;-)

--
With kind regards,

*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

I doubt that this is the problem. First, I burnt the ISO image (DVD)
with
K3B which checked MD5 (so the image most likely wasn't corrupt). Second
I
unistalled and reinstalled using the urpmi command with media settings
to
the mandriva servers. I also changed media sources to another server.
Still
nothing. But thanks for trying...

Chris

Hi Jeff,

Thx, but this too seems not to solve the prob. There is only one
uncommented
line with port settings and this one is set 631


Chris

It did take a while to post a reply (I only now realised that I do not
have post privileges on my newsserver -- anybody can suggest a free
news server with post privileges?). SO here now from google:

I just ran kcontrol again, this time with messages output to console.
This
is what I get (I do see the DCP7010 printer listed for about one second
--
than its gone from the list)

kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x824d9a4, number of objects

= 1
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x82817d4, number of objects = 2
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x8260f30, number of objects = 3
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x82b9198, number of objects = 4
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x82b9220, number of objects = 5
kdeprint: kdeprint: registering 0x82e36d4, number of objects = 6
kcontrol: KMMainView::slotChangeView
kdeprint: Checking for update possible
kcontrol: Returned Palette
kdeprint: Starting async connect
kdeprint: Connection success, trying to send a request...
kcontrol: KMMainView::slotTimer
kdeprint: KMVirtualManager::virtualList() prname=DCP7010
kcontrol: KMMainView::slotTimer
kcontrol: KMMainView::slotTimer
kcontrol: KMMainView::slotTimer
kdecore (KNetwork socket): Deprecated function called:[static
QPtrList<KAddressI nfo>
KExtendedSocket::lookup(const
QString&, const QString&, int, int*)]
kdecore (KNetwork resolver): shouldResInit: /etc/resolv.conf updated

As it turned out - Ihad a wrong media added to my urpmi database, why I
had a lot of cooker stuff on my system (This happened without my doing
so - must have been the auto update after installation)
Anyways, I had a libcups 1.2 running with cups 1.1.2

When trying to deinstall libcups basically all of KDE vanished (I had
IceWM suddenly), installing KDE didnt change a thing -- so I formatted
and installed anew. Now its working.

bit twister

Then, you had a cooker directory/mirror selected and was your doing.