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

[Alan E Davis <aedavis eccomm com>]

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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > gnumeric-list mailing list
> > gnumeric-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
> -- 
> Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>
> Taliesin


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