Re: Problem with printing in konqueror?
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 02:06:47PM -0500, Donald Spoon wrote:
> Paul Cupis wrote:
> > -SNIP- <
> >
> > FWIW, I have CUPS and KDE running fine together on sid, and have done
> > for a while. I vaguely recall that I may have had to blow away my
> > configuration after a CUPS upgrade a while ago - perhaps kprinter
> > generates a cups.conf which the newer/current CUPS pacakges do not
> > like?
> >
> > Can anyone having these problems try replcing their cups.conf with the
> > package maintainers version, reconfiguring, and trying again? It would
> > be useful to know if this is the cause of the problem, so that we may
> > try and resolve it.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Paul Cupis
> > - --
> > paul@cupis.co.uk
> >
>
> Paul, I had this happen to me about 2 weeks ago. I had upgraded KDE to
> 3.1.1, and subsequently upgraded from CUPS from Debian "testing" to the
> version in "unstable". I elected to keep my existing, moderately
> modified, conf files during the install. They had been working OK, so I
> thought "why not?"
>
> This turned out to be a BIG mistake... I never could make the new CUPS
> install work completely as it had before! It would print locally, and
> even remotely via SAMBA, but I could never get it to "advertise" itself
> to my LAN via CUPS as an available printer. I finally trashed my old
> conf file and replaced it with the packager's version and everything
> started working!
>
> In my case, it was the old /etc/cupsd.conf file that wasn't "nice".
Hi Don,
Did you check the difference between the old cups settings and the
new ones? If we can't track down this problem every(?) upgrade may
break cups. Not good for debians or cups' reputation ;)
Achim
>
> Submitted FYI...
>
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
>
>
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