Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 26 February 2006 13:26, John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken': > Success at last! Here's what I did on the affected box: > > 1) emerge -C cups. > > After removing cups, I noted that the /etc/cups dire

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
Uwe Thiem wrote: This looks very wrong. What happens if you copy the file from the unaffected box over? Success at last! Here's what I did on the affected box: 1) emerge -C cups. After removing cups, I noted that the /etc/cups directory still existed with all of its old con

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 February 2006 18:36, John Blinka wrote: > Uwe Thiem wrote: > >Does your /etc/mime.types file contain an entry for "text/html"? How does > > the line look like? > > I presume you mean /etc/cups/mime.types. These two files are *very* > different > on the working and nonworking machines. Among

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
Uwe Thiem wrote: Does your /etc/mime.types file contain an entry for "text/html"? How does the line look like? I presume you mean /etc/cups/mime.types. These two files are *very* different on the working and nonworking machines. Among many other differences the affected machine's tex

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 February 2006 17:17, John Blinka wrote: > David Helstroom wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > Just a quick thought - a thought quite possibly well and truly off > > track - could it be related to mime-types? Perhaps the CUPS web server > > has a problem recognising the HTML mime-type and thus is not

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
Ernie Schroder wrote: Compare USE flage in make.conf on working vs. non-working machines. check use flags when you merged cups # equery uses cups [ Searching for packages matching cups... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 February 2006 09:40, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >The only thing I can figure is that cups was compiled with some odd USE > > flag. Do you have an entry for cups in /etc/portage/package.use? > > No, don't even have that file. My USE flags in

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
David Helstroom wrote: Hi John, Just a quick thought - a thought quite possibly well and truly off track - could it be related to mime-types? Perhaps the CUPS web server has a problem recognising the HTML mime-type and thus is not sending them in the appropriate format (and with appropriate

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread David Helstroom
John Blinka wrote: Hi, all, I have a strange-to-me cups printing problem on one of my gentoo machines. When I point firefox at http://localhost:631, I don't see the familiar cups admin web page, but just the raw html, i.e., Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this.

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
Ernie Schroder wrote: The only thing I can figure is that cups was compiled with some odd USE flag. Do you have an entry for cups in /etc/portage/package.use? No, don't even have that file. My USE flags in /etc/make.conf are: USE="-pdflib -get -gnome qt kde dvd alsa oss cdr fortran cups

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 26 February 2006 07:20, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >Very strange Have you looked at the logs? /var/log/cups/access_log > >and /var/log/cups/error_log look at a tail of them and compare to the > > working machines. > > The logs are slightly d

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
Ernie Schroder wrote: Very strange Have you looked at the logs? /var/log/cups/access_log and /var/log/cups/error_log look at a tail of them and compare to the working machines. The logs are slightly different. Looking at http://localhost:631 on the working machine produces no errors

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:12, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >Make sure that you have the file: > > > >/usr/share/cups/docs/index.html > > > >and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that > > other html pages display properly.

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
Ernie Schroder wrote: Make sure that you have the file: /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that other html pages display properly. It's there. In fact, that's the file that's being displayed improperly. Its contents are ide

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have a strange-to-me cups printing problem on one of my gentoo machines. > When I point firefox at http://localhost:631, I don't see the > familiar cups admin web page, but just the raw html, i.e., > CUPS problems... surprise

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 25 February 2006 16:22, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to > > > >write: > >>Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. > >> > >>Thanks for your help

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. Thanks for your help. Have you tried a different browser? Try restarting cupsd # /etc/init.d/cupsd restart

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Does anyone know what's wrong?  None of my other machines does this. > > Thanks for your help. Have you tried a different browser? Try restarting cupsd # /etc/init.d/cupsd restart -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-use

[gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
Hi, all, I have a strange-to-me cups printing problem on one of my gentoo machines. When I point firefox at http://localhost:631, I don't see the familiar cups admin web page, but just the raw html, i.e., Common UNIX Printing System http://www.easysw.c