On February 13, 2006 01:37, John Layt wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 10:56, Peter Vollebregt wrote: ... > Thanks for those, Peter, but somehow they've made things worse :-( Now > instead of slow printing, we get no printing with the error message: > > An error occurred while retrieving the printer list: > > Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly > installed and running. Error: host not found. > > Needless to say this is after Cups is checked to be installed and running. > > We've tried everything, even a full removal of all cups, foomatic, > gutenprint, hplip, hpijs, etc, packages and a rm -rf of all the old config > files. The printer auto-detected and installed but nothing works, so now > my Dad is even more annoyed :-) > > I've Googled, searched cooker bugzilla, but no joy except a Debian mailing > list discussion about services starting in the wrong order and claiming > ports. > > Any clues anyone? > > Cheers! > > John.
I've found CUPS rather tricky to get functioning properly too. In fact, I was totally unable to get a 2005LE machine to see the printer on my 10.1 machine, even though the first machine had been able to see it fine when it was also on 10.1 (I've regretted the LE upgrade since I did it). I suspect an important clue in the error message is the "host not found". I don't know what host it's looking for, but it seems to be unable to find it. I'd investigate that some more. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
