CUPS problem

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 12:37 +0200, PerAntonRønning wrote:
> After a long period of smooth sailing I suddenly encountered a CUPS problem.
> Why I have got it is uncertain, maybe as a result of a yum upgrade run. 
> I had to reinstall FC 5 due to some disk trouble (possibly because a 
> blown fuse cut the electricity supply to my desk)
> so I imagined that I would be interested in upgraded programs since I 
> burned the FC5 distro.
> 
> I remove and reinstall the printer (which btw. is online, lights are up 
> :-) ) and when sending a testpage to the printer i get the following 
> message:
> 
> "There was a problem sending CUPS test page to laser1 queue (my chosen 
> printer name)
> 
> /usr/bin/lpr  connection refused
> 
> The following daemons are running:
> cupsd
> cups-config-daemon
> 
> I would be grateful to receive some help on this one.

The advice to check the messages in /var/log/cups error_log and access_log is the way to go.

But I would also stop cups-config-daemon from running. It causes
problems.
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