Fw: Re: Printing problems - hostname bad
--- Dennis Krinke <nwdck@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Have you tried the apsfilter SETUP in
> /usr/share/apsfilter ?
> I was just having trouble seting up a printer with
> magicfilter,
> but apsfilter SETUP worked... Dennis Krinke
>
> On Monday 18 February 2002 08:59 pm, Steve Kennedy
> wrote:
> > Resent-Sender:
> debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> >
> >
> > The following message appeared after using dselect
> to install gs-aladdin,
> > magicfilter and lprng:
> >
> > Starting printer spooler: 2002-01-26-17:52:22.445
> Get_local_host: hostname
> > 'debian' bad lprng.
> >
> > My /etc/hosts file is as follows:
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 216.191.62.2 stn.net
> >
> > My /etc/network/interfaces reads:
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> > If I try to print I get the following error:
> > Get_local_host: hostname 'debian' bad
> >
> > I don't understand what this error means -
> "debian" was the default
> > hostname when I installed the system.
> >
> > I'm running Woody with a 2.2.19 kernel with the
> following modules:
> > Module Size Used by
> > ppp_deflate 39424 0 (autoclean)
> > nls_cp437 3904 2 (autoclean)
> > sb 33280 0
> > uart401 6148 0 [sb]
> > sound 56480 0 [sb uart401]
> > soundcore 2564 6 [sb sound]
> > parport_probe 3392 0 (autoclean)
> > parport_pc 7392 1 (autoclean)
> > lp 4384 0 (unused)
> > parport 7524 1 [parport_probe
> parport_pc lp]
> > dummy 976 0 (unused)
> > bsd_comp 3936 0
> > ppp 20800 0 [ppp_deflate
> bsd_comp]
> > slhc 4304 0 [ppp]
> > vfat 9216 1
> > fat 29312 1 [vfat]
> >
> > The printer is an HP
> > DeskJet 932C. PPP and mail services work fine, but
> I am unable to print.
> > I've read man pages, printing docs and
> linuxprinting.org. I tried
> > installing CUPS but couldn't get it to see
> localhost:631.Right now, I'd be
> > satisfied getting the most basic printing going
> using gs and lprng, but I'm
> > stumped. Any advice?
>
Thanks for the hint. I used apsfilterconfig to set up
Apsfilter, and managed to print off a good-looking
test page. But when I tried to print either an ASCII
text or a .ps file I got the same "Get_local_host:
hostname 'debian' bad" error message. Weird.
Any other ideas?
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