On Monday 28 July 2003 09:52, Arie Folger wrote:
> Yesterday, I reinstalled my RH9.0 from scratch (because the old setup went
> kaput when I installed an updated glibc ... go figure. Caused segmentation
> faults and nothing worked afterwards, and even with rescue disk, nothing
> could seemingly be done to get it going again. The RPM database had been
> corrupted somehow, and refused service. Anybody had that, too?) and now I
> can't install printers.
I still don't know what went wrong with the upgraded glibc, and didn't hear
yet from others who may have installed it. Please let me know your experience
with it.
> First, LPRng is on the system, and won't go away, even though I have cups:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] afolger]# rpm -e LPRng
> failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory
> error: %preun(LPRng-3.8.19-3.1) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
Problem remains
However, the two problems below where solved when I copied the contents of my
backed up /etc/alternatives to the current /etc/alternatives, which was
empty. This brings up one of my pet peeves with RedHat. It is not the first
time that something of the sort happens. Particularly annoying is the fact
that on several versinos I noticed that S00killall and S01reboot/S01halt was
missing in the /etc/rc6.d and /rc0.d, respectively. Result is, of course, a
system that won't shut down. Thank God I know how to fix this, but I could
easily imagine a newby getting quite stuck with this.
Arie
(below are the two problems solved above)
> Then, redhat-switch-printer won't switch to cups:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] afolger]# redhat-switch-printer
> failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory
> failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/printconf-backend", line 7, in ?
> import backend
> File "/usr/share/printconf/util/backend.py", line 48, in ?
> which = cups_import.which_spooler ()
> File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 195, in
> which_spooler return which
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'which' referenced before assignment
>
> (the above happened after the dialog showed up, I clicked on the cups radio
> button and I then clicked apply or ok)
>
> Finally, it is entirely impossible to start redhat-config-printer:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] afolger]# redhat-config-printer
> failed to read link /usr/bin/lpr: No such file or directory
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/redhat-config-printer", line 9, in ?
> import queueTree
> File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 927, in ?
> queueTree()
> File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 101, in __init__
> if cups_import.import_needed ():
> File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 200, in
> import_needed which = which_spooler ()
> File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 195, in
> which_spooler return which
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'which' referenced before assignment
>
>
> I have never seen these errors before and googling led nowhere, but it
> surely looks like a conspiracy when three programs band against me ;-)
>
> I am using RH9.0 with all available updates except for glibc which is not
> the latest update since that one made my system crash in the first place
> (see top of message).
>
> Arie
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It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
-- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
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