Menu Problem - freezes when trying to set up printer

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Thu Mar 17 06:23:35 UTC 2005


Gerry Tool schrieb:
> In FC4T1 with all installable updates, I cannot set up a printer.
> 
> Two problems:
> 1.) Using the menu Desktop > System Settings > Printing freezes the menu 
> and does not open a dialog.  I could only get going again with a reboot 
> - restarting X caused a hang.
> 
> 2.) Using system-config-printer from the command line seemed to work, 
> but after setting up my Networked LPD print server using 192.168.1.102 
> as the server name and L2 as the printer port (works on all other 
> installs of FC, Suse, Ubuntu, etc.), a test page would not print.  The 
> printer status comes back as "Unable to reserve port. Permission denied."
> 
> These are two separate problems and I will bugzilla them.
> 
> Gerry
> 
Hello Gerry,

I had the same effect until i updated my system. I do not know what it 
is, but now it works for both (shell & gui-config)

Roger




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