CUPS printing and faxing problem (resend-2)

[Kurt Pfeifle]

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