kdeprintd cannot start child process

[Goffioul Michael]

> 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.