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Re: sid kde printing and cups setup



run foomatic-gui, it is very easy to setup a new one

Florian Kulzer писал(а):

> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:03:35 +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer wrote, On 2006-10-10 00:12:
> > >On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 16:22:58 +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> > >>Roger Leigh wrote:
> > >>>mlaks <mlaks@verizon.net> writes:
> > >>>
> > >>>>Up to date SID!
> > >>>>
> > >>>>1) kde printing system will not talk to cups. Any ideas on that?
> > >>after today's update the problem seems to show up once again...
> > >>
> > >>any clue please?
> > >
> > >Printing with CUPS under KDE 3.5.4 had a bug that could be worked around
> > >by commenting out the line
> > >
> > >Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> > >
> > >in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Now with KDE 3.5.5 it seems that this line is
> > >needed again. Make sure it is in your cupsd.conf and restart cupsys.
> > >That fixed the problem for me a few days ago. (kdeprint 4:3.5.5-1)
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for this. Apart from having to close the KDE control centre and
> > re-open it after editing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and running
> >
> > /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
> >
> > to see it work, the change worked smoothly.
> >
> > I wish that this piece of information had appeared in apt-listnews. Did
> > it appear in any other change logs?
>
> I noticed the new problem for the first time when kdelibs was updated
> to version 3.5.5 (while still using kdeprint version 3.5.4). When I
> realized that the problem persisted after kdeprint was updated as well,
> I found this somewhat ominous passage in the changelog of kdelibs:
>
>   * Drop the CUPS 1.2 patches that no longer apply, as more or less working
>     support was merged upstream. Salvage a few changes to prevent errors
>     from popping up when the user has no printers defined. Please report
>     obvious regressions.
>
> I did not file a bug report because the cupsd.conf file from the current
> cupsys package (1.2.4-2+b1) works with the new KDE packages. Maybe we
> should indeed file a wishlist bug for a short notice in the NEWS
> section; after all, a number of people might have changed cupsd.conf to
> work around the old bug.
>
> --
> Regards,
>           Florian
>
>
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