Greetings once again, Well, suffice it to say, no one has chimed in with any suggestions yet. I have another clue which my eyes noticed during the boot process last night, for what it's worth. Don't know if this means anything since I had problems configuring printing during the reinstall/upgrade-type but here it is. The boot screen scrolls by the following:
Quote - Loading parralel port printer modules devfs: devfs_register_(): device already registered "0" Starting CUPS printing system: lpd: warning -** cannot open: /var/log/lp-errs (): - 'permission denied' warning: -cannot start lp device: /dev/lp0: -permission denied Unquote - I've checked all the /var/log files I can find and I can detect no reason for the problem. Again, upon an attempted re-install as reported below, it didn't appear that I had a successful installation of the printer. Still open for any suggestions. Rob Begin forwarded message: Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:59:07 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: Yet another printing question Greetings again all... Having seen no response to the below, I "reinstalled/upgraded" tonight and paid particular attention to the printer configuration. In a nutshell, I could not get CUPS to accept/configure my printer (and I chose all, alternatives that were available for my HP DeskJet 970Cse), the result each time was "An error occurred - foomatic-configure failed." So I chose lprng. At least I was able to get a test page to print fine during the "install" process from the CD installation routine. However, I still cannot print...nothing happens. MDK 8.0 was fine. Did something funny change relative to printing between 8.0 and 8.1? I don't understand why printing seems to be such rocket science in Linux. Rob Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:26:50 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yet another printing question Greetings all, I have been struggling to get printing to work ever since I installed MDK 8.1. It appears that my printer is recognized (or at least is reflected by name in the configuration files I've checked) leading me to believe I have a CUPS problem. Indeed, when I try (as root) in a terminal window to bring up KUPS, I receive the following: "Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed DCOPServer up and running. language: C" The Kups window then comes up but nothing is reflected as an installed printer. Anyone have any experience with this? I've reinstalled once (as an update) with the same results. Thanks in advance. Rob
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