Re: cups daemon printer problem and monitor

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 3:01 pm, you wrote:
> Terry wrote:
> >On Tuesday 05 July 2005 11:08 am, you wrote:
> >>Terry wrote:
> >>>Newby, but reading mauals. My printer was working fine, but a week after
> >>>a download upgrade, my printer won't print.
> >>>
> >>>Message reads - cups daemon failed during initialization.
> >>>
> >>>Does YAST repair fix this issue?
> >>>
> >>>Any help appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>Terry T
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> >>Had this problem sometime back - the fix with Yast is as follows
> >>You said you are a newbie so here is the simplest solution...
> >>
> >> You will need to reinstall the original version of cups - so you will
> >>need to have the your install disks.
> >>then go to "Add and Remove programs" (under software)
> >>go to search for packages
> >> search for "cups"
> >> Make a note of all cups items selected
> >> uncheck all checked selections
> >> click "Accept" (down at the bottom right corner of the
> >>screen) - this will remove all of cups from your computer.
> >> When this is done then once again search for "cups" as you did
> >>above.
> >> Then recheck all cups packages from your notes.
> >> Again click "Accept" This will reinstall cups from your
> >>disks.
> >> When this is done - reinstall your printer.
> >>
> >>All should be well with the world again! However, do not let your
> >>system to update cups for at least a month or two over the web, give
> >>SuSE time to fix the problem.
> >
> >I had a friend who was just visiting who knows linux very well. Just
> > before he flew back late sat night he did as you suggested. He unchecked
> > the cups boxes etc. and reinstalled cups. He said he saw the previous
> > error message and now it should work just fine. The next day I hooked up
> > the printer, and it read the same error of cups failing as before.
> >You said to reinstall the printer. I did that at the configure in last,
> > but on the test page print --cups daemon failed to initialize . My
> > lexmark z42 works on my windows xp side. Any other thoughts out there.
> >
> >I had to work late last friday and missed the meeting, and this friday and
> >next friday I can't attend until after the 25th. I'll get to the next
> >meeting after that weekend.
> >
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> I will try to make the meeting on the 25th - with luck there will be
> others there that are cups experts - I have worked with it some -
> however, when the printer starts working I stop looking into it so I
> would say that I am not a real expert but someone that has managed to
> get it working from time to time. I am always ready and willing to poke
> at it some more.

I'll be at the meeting the 29th of july and for sure, thanks for the help.

Now my monitor a costco princeton, screen message is " out of range " . I
haven't changed anything on that system - red hat.

My laptop is suse 9.1 pro.

Terry
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Received on Wed Jul 13 17:11:04 2005