I'm baffled by the way cups is (mis)behaving on my wife's system. Background: She's got my old PII-266 running RedHat 7.3, kernel just updated to 2.4.20-19.7. The printer is a LaserJet 4L on /dev/lp0. Until a few nights ago everything was fine; indeed both of us used the LaserJet as our main print device. After a peculiar crash followed by a thoroughly inept attempt at recovery by me, her Linux partitions were destroyed and I had to start all over. Reinstalled RH 7.3 from the CDs and updated relevant files via RHN.
Now cups won't let us print anything EXCEPT the test page from the cups admin screen, which prints perfectly. Trying to print from an application on her machine or mine (on the network), nothing happens. Trying to print from a terminal window, I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <her home directory>]# man lpr | lpr Status Information: sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 cannot open connection to localhost - Connection refused Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol [EMAIL PROTECTED] <her home directory>]# If I print a test page from the cups admin screen, it shows up as a job. If I try to print from an application or a terminal window, it never shows up in the job queue. I tried switching her to LPRng and - lo and behold - it works. Perfect test page, good output from applications. Switch back to cups, still no go. Switch back to LPRng, now get the same error as with cups! Wipe the printer out in the RH LPRng configuration GUI tool, reinstall it and we're printing OK again with LPRng. I tried uninstalling the cups package, downloading it again from RH and reinstalling, but this changed nothing. I tried rebooting into the 2.4.18-3 kernel which she was running prior to the crash, and this also changed nothing. We're using cups 1.1.14-15.4 which is apparently the most recent version that is compatible with RH 7.3. I'm using the same version on my machine with no problems. Can anyone help me get cups going again for her? =====Andrew
