FC5 YUM Update yesterday...printing now broken.

pstrang · #1 25th June 2006, 09:10 PM

Has anyone else had this happen? I updated yesterday with 'yum update' and now printing is broken. printer-config-gui broken; cups broken; nothing works.

/usr/bin/lpr: Connection refused

I do NOT have SELinux enabled. I tried a number of things to try to fix but to no avail. I don't yet know about the previous kernel.

FYI, those who have not run 'yum upate', be careful. BTW, whoever is in charge of releasing packages should probably recruite more testing help. 'yum update' has broken a lot of major things recently (this is just one example).

Seve · #2 25th June 2006, 09:21 PM

Hello:
Not sure what the problem may be, however, I did a complete update on both a FC5 32 bit and x86_64 system and both still print ..to a local printer?
Do you have some unfriendly repos configured in your yum by any chance?
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...s.html#Warning
Seve

pstrang · #3 25th June 2006, 09:33 PM

Thanks. The only one I had was livna for some decent graphics performance.

Neither of the gui printerconfig programs in KDE or GNOME will open. The text mode printer config finds the printer and installs the drivers, but errors out printing a test page. CUPS ipp interface just hangs on any administration options (such as adding a printer). View the CUPS ipp printers just brings up a webpage that says Error. Tried webmin out of curiousity...broken too.

So is the general consenses that 3rd party package folks don't know jack about a distribution and create incompatible packages? Enough to completely disable all printing? Seems a little extreme to me.

Oh, and booting the previous kernel didn't fix anything. The packages must be messed up.

Seve · #4 25th June 2006, 09:44 PM

Hello:
I know this is not helping you, however, I use livna to install Nvidia drivers, but that is it. My gnome printer-config still works as it has and I can print test pages and from OO etc.
I can use localhost:631 with all it's features as well?
I am not using webmin nor KDE so I can't speak to that.
$ rpm -aq | grep cups
hal-cups-utils-0.5.5-1.2.fc5.2
cups-1.2.1-1.7
libgnomecups-0.2.2-3.2.1
cups-libs-1.2.1-1.7

Hopefully, you get it sorted out.
Seve

weinerdogus · #5 3rd July 2006, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pstrang

Has anyone else had this happen? I updated yesterday with 'yum update' and now printing is broken. printer-config-gui broken; cups broken; nothing works.

/usr/bin/lpr: Connection refused

I do NOT have SELinux enabled. I tried a number of things to try to fix but to no avail. I don't yet know about the previous kernel.

FYI, those who have not run 'yum upate', be careful. BTW, whoever is in charge of releasing packages should probably recruite more testing help. 'yum update' has broken a lot of major things recently (this is just one example).

I am experiencing the same problem. I have the same packages installed that Seve has listed, and no printing. This happened all of a sudden, printing was fine prior to update. Very frustrating to say the least. Livna is the only third party repo that i use. Could this be the cause of the problem?

pstrang · #6 3rd July 2006, 03:19 PM

Apparently Seve suggests that it could be the cause. For me, printing was so broken, and I couldn't fix it. I had to reformat and reinstall FC5. However, with the latest updates applied (no livna this time), printing kinda works, but cups seems to be a little fishy. I'm thinking the latest cups rpm has issues too.

Laura · #7 12th July 2006, 03:05 AM

I have the same problem. New FC5 install wasn't working with network printer, heard there was an update that might fix this. Unfortunately updating just broke print config completely. No GUI.

Message when running in terminal is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/system-config-printer", line 9, in ?
import queueTree
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 82, in ?
import pycups
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pycupsmodule.so: undefined symbol: cupsDoRequest

Not sure where to report this other than the forum.

Laura.

dspringer · #8 14th July 2006, 04:01 PM

FC5 yum update CUPS problems SOLVED!!

For those who updated recently and lost the ability to print, the solution is fairly quick and painless. The /etc/cups/cupsd.conf has errors, so copy your safe copy over and viola!!

# mv /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.screwed
# cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.save /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

Have tested on a couple of FC5 systems with great success. Your mileage may vary.

D.

Laura · #9 14th July 2006, 09:37 PM

Doesn't seem to work here. Even tried copying the cupsd.conf from a different computer with no success- still when I try to set up 'Printing' I am asked for the root password then nothing.

suomaf · #10 19th July 2006, 12:47 PM

I had the same problem too. When i try lpq I can see the printer that i installed. but when i try to print form a app (like gnotepad) i can't see the printers. Tried the solution above and still nada. Tho I need try to print from gimp today and got a whole lot of empty pages, at which point i had to disable the print server and restart it. After that i can't see the printer or start print conf gui anymore. Is this a cups thing?

suomaf · #11 19th July 2006, 12:49 PM

umm btw the error i am getting from trying to run printconf-gui is as follows
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/printconf", line 9, in ?
import queueTree
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 82, in ?
import pycups
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pycupsmodule.so: undefined symbol: cupsDoRequest

any help would be much appreciated

dspringer · #12 19th July 2006, 02:58 PM

Hmmm... ok...

The systems I fixed are all Dell Optiplex GX620 boxes, with basic FC5 and use the livna repo. Each system uses KDE.

Extra packages are installed like some operational multimedia capabilities. After updating on or about the 8th, all printing broke.

On a whim I replaced all of the systems' /etc/cups/cupsd.conf with a safe copy. and all worked. After checking the /etc/cup/cupsd.conf, I opened the Control Center / Peripherals / Printers, before the conf tweak, there were no printers, afterwards there was. I noticed that the default print system was "CUPS (Common UNIX Print System)" and not the default "Generic UNIX LPD Print System" - I set it to default. These items were consistent across each system I fixed.

There must be quite a number of different problems with cups as available from livna.

I hope this helps someone.

suomaf · #13 20th July 2006, 02:07 AM

doing yum update cups as I type this.. fingers crossed hope this would fix it =)

suomaf · #14 20th July 2006, 02:36 AM

Updating to cups.i386 1:1.2.1-1.7 worked and fixed my printing.. I love this miracle stuff =)
LONG LIVE TUX!

Omega Blue · #15 20th July 2006, 04:26 AM

A couple of things to check if your printing is broken:

1. make sure cupsd is running /etc/cups restart
2. browse to localhost:631 to check the config