On Monday 23 October 2006 19:55, Robert L Mathews wrote: > I also recently (2006-10-22) did a dist-upgrade and started > experiencing the same problem described here: nothing in KDE would > print any more, and I saw the same error when looking at Printers in > the KDE Control Center: > > "Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is > correctly installed and running. Error: localhost: read failed (15)." > > However, I am using the testing distribution, so my kdeprint is still > version 3.5.4-2+b1, and kdebase is still 3.5.4-2. On other words, > kdeprint has not changed for some time on my machine. What *did* > change on my machine as a result of the dist-upgrade is most of the > other KDE components (to 3.5.5). So I suspect the problem actually > lies elsewhere (I don't know where). Could you please upgrade your kdebase (and therefore kdeprint) to the version in Sid/unstable, 3.5.5? Then tell me if the problem persists (I guess you'll have to try printing with both Host=localhost and Host=127.0.0.1). Sorry to be a pain, but I want to be certain whether or not the problem still exists in 3.5.5, given that the Etch release isn't too far off. Thanks, Christopher Martin > In response to the last poster, I looked at my > "~/.kde/share/config/kdeprintrc" file. It also has not changed in a > long time, but I started playing with it to see if I could modify it > to fix the problem. I found that this line in the "[CUPS]" section > causes it to fail: > > Host=localhost > > But if I change that line to this, it works(!): > > Host=127.0.0.1 > > My machine has /etc/hosts set up correctly for localhost: > > $ host localhost > localhost has address 127.0.0.1 > > So. This seems to indicate that some other KDE component in 3.5.5, > other than kdeprint, has somehow broken the ability for hostnames to > be resolved from kdeprintrc. > > Does that makes sense? Not to me. Hope it's useful to someone > else.... If anyone cares, I can send along my /var/log/dpkg to show > the exact 383 packages that were upgraded when the problem started. > > -- > Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/
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