[kde-linux] Strange network printing problem - Sorted

[Thomas Taylor]

On Friday 13 January 2006 12:37, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 13 Jan 2006 17:30, Werner Joss wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 13. Januar 2006 17:38 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > > I'm getting desperate - I have been without a printer for three
> > > days now.  Has anyone any ideas at all?
> >
> > no :-(
> > just a wild guess: you said the printer used to work but suddenly
> > 'vanished', right ?
> > so, maybe some configuration from that user is messed up.
> > did you try to use the printer from a newly created account ?
>
> I'll probably never know what caused it, but the cure should not have
> taken me so long to remember.  Rename ~/.kde and re-login.  It's
> working now.
>
> Anne

Hi Anne:

The following is extracted from an email I sent to the list last year 
regarding a solved printing problem I was having.  Not the same problem as 
yours but a couple of things you could look at and think about.
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I only found the solution after re-installing FC4 and consequently kde as 
fresh installs (after saving /home/tom).  After rebooting and getting root 
account back to where I wanted, I started account "tom" up and went into X 
(kde).  Printing worked just the way it's supposed to.

THEN I reloaded all my personal files ONLY, not any of the directories 
including /.kde.  I also deleted the .kderc file.  DAM*, back to the printing 
problem.

So a careful perusal of all the personal files found one called .lpoptions 
which called the enscript filter for a postscript filter.  Deleting that file 
eliminated the problem.  Don't know how it got there. 
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Tom

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