On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 19:00 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Roderick,
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:53 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:24 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > > Philipp,
> > > 
> > > Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:26 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > > > > > CUPS is working fine in isolation but on the problem server, it 
> > > > > > appears
> > > > > > that OOo is failing to detect CUPS - have you got anything that I 
> > > > > > can
> > > > > > use to work out why this might be the case?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Phil.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The easiest way that can happen is if libcups.so.2 cannot be opened 
> > > > > for 
> > > > > some reason. So where is that library installed in your system ? Does 
> > > > > setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to that directory before starting OOo help ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Kind regards, pl
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Good call! - when I checked for this I found:
> > > 
> > >   /usr/lib64/libcups.so.2
> > > 
> > > but not:
> > > 
> > >   /usr/lib/libcups.so.2
> > > 
> > > like on the other servers.  Although, rpm thought:
> > > 
> > >   cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.i386.rpm
> > > 
> > > was installed, so I forced a reinstall, re-started cups and, magically,
> > > all the printer types were now "CUPS:xx" and all the extra trays
> > > appeared in the print screen in OOo!
> > > 
> > > Many thanks,
> > > 
> > > Phil.
> > 
> > Nice to know it wasn't an OOo problem.  
> 
> 
> Yes but I guess what would have helped is some log file or something,
> telling me what was going on during startup which might have pointed me
> in the right direction earlier.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.

Since this a troubleshooting task at OS level it is doubtful that
logging would help. However, I would like you to write up how to
troubleshoot the problem you had and attach it to 
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29679
so it can be added to the guide.

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