Re: gnumeric is inexplicably broken on my machine: Now working

[frank brierley <frank_n_brierley yahoo com au>]

Hi Guys,

This might be a little off topic, but I think cups installs it's own
version of lpd and lpr.  Cups seems to have gone it's own way and
completely rewritten a printing system instead of building on lpd 
Seemingly as an after thought, cups has seen fit to overwrite berkeley
line printer spooling system (lpd) with a incomplete version.

Gnumeric works fine with Berkeley's lpd, although libgnomeprint could
handle some minor refinements.  If you'd rather use lpd - as I do -
maybe you could consider building and installing lpd after cups has been
removed, this should get your lpd running from the correct files.

Frank

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 21:01, Alan E Davis wrote:
> I don't use cups, at least I try not to use cups.  For me, lpd works fine, even for network printing.  However, my current unstable configuration was built on top of a Knoppix 3.3 install.  Since Knoppix is KDE-centric, and uses CUPS out of the box, I have been flummoxed how to purge the printing setup of cups.  Printing has been screwed up on this very machine---when I print one page from emacs ('lpr-region' or 'lpr-buffer') three pages are printed, and sometimes blank pages are ejected.  So apparently my efforts to purge the system of CUPS has failed.  There are a number of troublesome dependencies.  
> 
> Perhaps that is the tree, up which I should bark.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.  I will try to follow up if I figure out what gives.
> 
> Alan Davis
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:18:39 -0700
> "Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:40, Jon Kåre Hellan wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 21:33, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:24, Alan E Davis wrote:
> > > > > Gnumeric is now working---again, inexplicably!  The only difference 
> > > > > I can see is I am using icewm.  I haven't upgraded any packages.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Alan Davis
> > > > 
> > > > This is consistent with the libcupsys problem that cups hangs when the
> > > > printer server does not respond.
> > > 
> > > The cups problem can bite you in unexpected ways - until you think about
> > > it.
> > 
> > I usually don't run into any such problems since I also run cupsd on
> > every machine, so the cups server is always localhost. That local cups
> > server then either polls another server or listens to braodcasts picking
> > up printers. If you are not connected to the network, your printers
> > simply disappear...
> > 
> > Andreas
> > > 
> > > I had configured cups on my laptop to pick up printers from the cups
> > > server, adding "ServerName foo.bar.no" to /etc/cups/client.conf.
> > > 
> > > Fine when in the office, but when I was traveling, gnumeric wouldn't
> > > start. Because the cups server wasn't accessible from outside.
> > > 
> > > Actually, after a while it gave up trying and timed out. But that was
> > > after *I* had lost patience and given up.
> > > 
> > > Jon Kåre
> > > 
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> > -- 
> > Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>
> > Taliesin
> > 
>