On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 18:17 -0500, William Case wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 16:23 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 14:30 -0500, William Case wrote: > > > i Karn and Anne; > > > > > > I failed to input a location; at the moment there is only one > > > location. > > > When I re-set my printer using CUPS:631 last night I input a location, > > > now it seems to work properly. I am really sorry for taking up your > > > time unnecessarily. Working late at night and succumbing to > > > frustration > > > is my only excuse. > > > That's fascinating. In my experience the location (if you mean what room > > the printer is in) is irrelevant in configuring the printer. > > -- > > You are right. It seems that the problem only comes up at re-boot. I > have just tried several different programs in varying order, logging in > and out. It seemed to work. Then I tried re-booting and the problem > returned. To reiterate: > > 1) I re-boot; login; check the system-configure-printing gui and > CUPS:631. My HP psc-1310-series is enabled and default. > 2) I open any of four different applications; create a test page of > gobblyguk. > 3) I use the print command on the File menu tab. Check that the HPchkconfig cups-config-daemon off If not restart cups-config-daemon by running: -- > psc-1310-series printer is listed and selected. The test page is placed > in the printing queue -- but does not print. > 4) Recheck the system-configure-printing gui and CUPS:631 and my printer > is no longer enabled in the system-configure-printing gui. I re-enable > it and the queue prints. > 5) The printer continues to print until I re-boot. > > (By the way, If you hear in the news that an older man in Ottawa Canada > mysteriously drowned in his basement under six feet of paper, would you > let the authorities know what I was working on?) Before you drown try one more thing if you haven't before. Stop cups-config-daemon by running: service cups-config-daemon stop If that cures things then run : chkconfig cups-config-daemon off If not restart cups-config-daemon by running: service cups-config-daemon start -- > -- > Regards Bill > ======================================================================= In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination. -- John Diefenbaker ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
