Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:34:51 +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I have a debian Etch installed from scratch and I'm experiencing >> problems when printing. >> >> I'm using: >> KDM window manager >> cupsys 1.2.1-2 >> kdeprint 4.3.5.3-2 >> >> Kdeprint refuse to use cups as printing system saying that he cannot >> retrieve the printer's list. >> >> Some applications (firefox, openoffice) don't print and see only a >> "generic printer" instead of the printer's list. >> > > I had the same problem a few days ago on Sid. I could solve it by > commenting out the line > > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock > > in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, so that it only had "Listen localhost:631". > After restarting cupsys everything was fine again. > > For your version of cupsys you have to check both /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > (it should be commented out in there already) and > /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf. > Great! The line was only in /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf
Now it works again Thanks a lot! Mirto > I don't know if this is a proper solution or just a workaround for some > problem in kprinter. If that line is not commented out kprinter will > pick "/var/run/cups/cups.sock" as the printer address and it seems > unable to use this socket instead of port 631. > > -- __________________________________________________________ Mirto Silvio Busico ICT Consultant Tel. +39 333 4562651 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]