bennachie
13th April 2011, 01:27 AM
Adding printers under Beta-RC2 seems to be a somewhat fraught business at the moment.
I was initially quite impressed by the Printers utility under System Settings. The utility correctly identified the two printers connected to this computer (a Brother HL2140 and an HP F2280). I went ahead and requested that the HL2140 be added to the list of printers available. The utility identified the correct packages required to support that printer (Foomatic PPD lists) and I gave the OK to download them.
Downloading and installation appeared to proceed normally, but then I received an SELinux notification that an error had occurred. The error appeared to relate only to the absence of permission to access a log file, so I clicked on the "ignore" button (yes, I know, I should have reported a bug at that stage). After a few seconds, I received a notification that the HL2140 had been added to the list of available printers.
I returned to the Printers utility to add the F2280. Again, the utility correctly identified the missing package (hpijs in this case), and downloading and installation appeared to proceed normally. After that process had been completed, however, the utility locked up. After waiting for several minutes just in case something constructive was about to happen, I logged out and logged in again. On returning to the Printers utility, I received the above message. Shutting down and restarting the system has not resolved the problem, nor has removing and reinstalling system-config-printer.
I should, perhaps, add that all the relevant packages mentioned above now appear to be present and correct. Any suggestions for fixing the impasse without reinstalling the whole system would be welcomed!
I was initially quite impressed by the Printers utility under System Settings. The utility correctly identified the two printers connected to this computer (a Brother HL2140 and an HP F2280). I went ahead and requested that the HL2140 be added to the list of printers available. The utility identified the correct packages required to support that printer (Foomatic PPD lists) and I gave the OK to download them.
Downloading and installation appeared to proceed normally, but then I received an SELinux notification that an error had occurred. The error appeared to relate only to the absence of permission to access a log file, so I clicked on the "ignore" button (yes, I know, I should have reported a bug at that stage). After a few seconds, I received a notification that the HL2140 had been added to the list of available printers.
I returned to the Printers utility to add the F2280. Again, the utility correctly identified the missing package (hpijs in this case), and downloading and installation appeared to proceed normally. After that process had been completed, however, the utility locked up. After waiting for several minutes just in case something constructive was about to happen, I logged out and logged in again. On returning to the Printers utility, I received the above message. Shutting down and restarting the system has not resolved the problem, nor has removing and reinstalling system-config-printer.
I should, perhaps, add that all the relevant packages mentioned above now appear to be present and correct. Any suggestions for fixing the impasse without reinstalling the whole system would be welcomed!
