On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:12, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >Make sure that you have the file: > > > >/usr/share/cups/docs/index.html > > > >and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that > > other html pages display properly. > > It's there. In fact, that's the file that's being displayed improperly. > Its contents are identical to the same file on other systems I own > which display correctly, so that's not the problem. And all other > html pages display correctly. So... > > 1) the problem is not the contents, permissions, or presence > of the file - they're all identical to other systems in which > the file displays properly. In fact, the file displays > properly (almost) if I access it as > file:///usr/share/cups/docs/index.html instead of > http://localhost:631 > 2) the problem is not specific to a browser - the same behavior > occurs with Firefox and Konqueror. > 3) the problem is not html per se - all other html pages display > properly. > 4) if I stop cupsd, then the browser claims that the request > for http://localhost:631 is refused. > > The evidence suggests to me that there's something unfortunate > happening with whatever occurs when I supply http://localhost:631 > to the browser. cupsd is the agent listening at port 631 and it's > the source of the error. I'm guessing that when cupsd supplies the > contents of /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html to the browser, the browser > doesn't realize that it's receiving html and so renders it as raw text. > > John
Very strange.... Have you looked at the logs? /var/log/cups/access_log and /var/log/cups/error_log look at a tail of them and compare to the working machines. -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
