kdeprintd cannot start child process
Goffioul Michael
goffioul at imec.be
Tue Feb 14 09:35:05 CET 2006
> Hi,
>
> I'm struggling to get the KDE print menu to work.
>
> I keep getting the following error:
> A print error occured. Error message received from system:
>
> Unable to start child print process. The KDE print server
> (kdeprintd) could not be contacted. Check that this server is running.
>
> What I've found is that the root user can print without any problems.
> Yet when I print through a normal user it gives me the error
> message above...
>
> Where is kdeprintd loaded? How can I change it so that a
> normal user can print through the menu.
>
> Another thing is that we can print fine using the lpr
> command. I'm using kde 3.4.
>
> What can the problem be? I've googled quite a bit and I
> can't seem to find any answers :( (perhaps I'm not searching
> for the correct thing?)
kdeprintd is a kded module and should be started automatically by kded
server when requested. Check if you can use the "dcop" command line tool
to contact kdeprintd: "dcop kded kdeprintd"
Michael.
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