CUPS printing and faxing problem (resend-2)
Kurt Pfeifle
kpfeifle at danka.de
Fri May 16 12:26:06 CEST 2003
Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 15:45, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> - snip -
>
>>>I could not fax at all. I can print only using the 'Generic
>
> printer' of
>
>>>OpenOffice1.0.1. kdeprint could not work.
>>
>>Could you try 2 things, because I'm lost about what's warking and
>>what's not:
>>1) start konqueror and print something (no fax, just print it)
>
>
> a) Start Konqueror and open a document
>
> b) File -> Print Print-Konqueror started
>
> c) Print System currently used - select "CUPS (Common Unix Print
> System)"
>
> d) Error-Konqueror popup
> An error occurred while retrieving the printer list.
> Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is
> correctly installed and running.
One common cause for this message is that there is no CUPS daemon
running at all! You can check for cupsd with
ps aux | grep cupsd
and
lpstat -r
Cheers,
Kurt
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