Bug 83309
| Summary: | lpr can't map ip address to local printer | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jorge A. Aquino <jorgeaquino> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | twaugh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-02-03 16:50:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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LPRng requires that you can resolve the host 'localhost' (to 127.0.0.1). You need to either add an entry to /etc/hosts, or sort it out with redhat-config-network. There should have been an appropriate entry in /etc/hosts already. Did you change /etc/hosts or /etc/resolv.conf after installing? here's the rub: the "localhost" comes from the default installation host when I
installed RHL 8.0. I since changed the name to fit my machine onto a home
network. (New hostname is "littleman" on local domain "homespun".)
the program does not seem to have recognized that I changed the host/domain.
now i have gone back into /etc/hosts and added an entry:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain local loopback
but that does not seem to have changed anything. I am still getting that lpr
status message:
[jaquino@littleman jaquino]$ lpr status
Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available!
And my /etc/resolv.conf entry is
search localdomain
nameserver 207.69.188.186
nameserver 207.69.188.185
what am i doing wrong here? (thanks for the rapid response!)
-ja
You've changed /etc/hosts. On the line with 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, you *must* leave "localhost.localdomain localhost" |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: trying to print from a local epson stylus c60 printer. no response from computer after print command (not even HD indicator! nada!) tried resetting driver (via printconf) but could not print test page, or anything else, thereafter. various diagnostics: # 1 [root@littleman root]# lpr -v Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available! [root@littleman root]# [root@littleman root]# * * * #2 [root@bigboy root]# printconf (printconf:1900): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GObject' (printconf:1900): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 972 (g_object_get): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (printconf:1900): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GObject' (printconf:1900): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 972 (g_object_get): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed [root@bigboy root]# * * * 3: [root@bigboy root]# service lpd restart Stopping lpd: [FAILED] Starting lpd: 2003-02-01-20:29:40.179 bigboy Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available! [ OK ] [root@bigboy root]# * * * 4: [root@bigboy root]# lpr Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available! [root@bigboy root]# * * * hope that helps. -ja Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to print from anywhere 2.nothing happens 3.various workarounds fail (see above) Additional info: