From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.11 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010118 I am not sure that what I am posting is necessarily a new bug. I checked out other bugs posted and there are two that are very similar to mine but do not seem to explicitly state exactly what is happenning. Being a person who likes clarity, I decided to state the problem in clearer less ambiguous terms. When I install Red Hat Fisher, it does not seem, by default to install the LPrng rpm. I am not sure if this is by accident or by design. However, I noticed immediately when I started Gnome that the Control Panel did not have an icon for the printer as it has typically in every other Red Hat release I've used prior to Fisher. I didn't think much of it and figured maybe the print tool just changed location. I decided since I also had KDE installed that I wanted to try it out. When I tried accessing the print tool from within KDE it complained mentioning something about the LPrng tool being needed. Therefore, I took it upon myself to look up on the web for this tool and found it on a web page which also stated I needed rhs-printfilters. So I downloaded both of these once I located them on the web ensuring that they were in rpm format because I love installing via rpm rather then thru source. And my printing system started to work after some tweaking. However, even after installing these packages from the net, some bizarre behavior has occurred that never happenned before when I used Previous versions of Red hat which auto installed those files. What happenned is that a few times my printcap file has become corrupt for no apparent reason that I can determine. I never modify the printcap file manually so I have no idea how it could have been corrupted. Secondly, when I try to use the print tool from within the control panel to add a printer as I have with previous versions of red hat, it creates the file /var/spool/lpd/lp . However, it does not create this file with the correct permissions and whenever the printcap file gets corrupted and I am forced to delete the printer from the print tool and reinstall it, it recreates this file with incorrect permissions. This forces me each time this occurs to go thru a rather annoying process to get it to work again. I am always successful in getting it to work again. However, the printcap file seems to get corrupted every once in awhile. This does not occur real frequently, but frequently enough to be a major pain. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. install red hat fisher 2. install LPrng latest version 3.install rhs-printfilters from rpm.org 4. install Epson Sylus any stcany 360x360 Actual Results: I was able to successfully install the printer but it seems that it is not very reliable. This may have to do with incompatibilities between the rpms that I downloaded and the changes made in Red hat Fisher. Things basically work after installing the rpms but the printcap file crashes consistently. The steps above should help to try to reproduce the problem though they may not help exactly. In order to assist more thoroughly I will try to submit as many of my log files and details of my system architecture as possible. Expected Results: the printer should have been installed and should work properly without causing any corruption to the printcap file. Firstly, here are details of my computer system: /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 551.261 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips : 1097.72 ---------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0376-0376 : ide1 0378-037a : parport0 037b-037f : parport0 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 0778-077a : parport0 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 d000-dfff : PCI Bus #01 d000-d0ff : 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 e000-e00f : VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE e000-e007 : ide0 e008-e00f : ide1 e400-e41f : VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB e400-e41f : usb-uhci e800-e81f : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) e800-e81f : ne2k-pci ------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 6 lp 7 vcs 10 misc 29 fb 36 netlink 81 video_capture 108 ppp 109 lvm 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw 180 usb Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 9 md 22 ide1 58 lvm --------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/iomem 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-07ffffff : System RAM 00100000-00210fb5 : Kernel code 00210fb6-00277f87 : Kernel data d0000000-d3ffffff : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] d4000000-d7ffffff : PCI Bus #01 d4000000-d5ffffff : 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 d8000000-d9ffffff : PCI Bus #01 d8000000-d9ffffff : 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 da000000-da007fff : Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved --------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/dma 4: cascade ------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/filesystems nodev sockfs nodev swapfs nodev shm nodev pipefs nodev proc ext2 iso9660 nodev devpts nodev usbdevfs nodev autofs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 498525 XT-PIC timer 1: 11652 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 10: 12214 XT-PIC usb-uhci, eth0 12: 210277 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 17506 XT-PIC ide0 15: 2 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/modules lp 5584 1 (autoclean) tdfx 57584 1 ppp_async 6128 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic 15968 3 (autoclean) [ppp_async] autofs 11152 1 (autoclean) ipchains 33440 0 (unused) agpgart 23360 1 cpia_usb 4640 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport_pc 17776 1 (autoclean) cpia_pp 3728 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport 24768 1 (autoclean) [lp parport_pc cpia_pp] cpia 44080 0 [cpia_usb cpia_pp] videodev 4896 0 [cpia] usb-uhci 22176 0 (unused) usbcore 48960 1 [cpia_usb usb-uhci] ne2k-pci 4896 1 8390 6576 0 [ne2k-pci] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 68). Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd3ffffff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 33). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 16). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 2: USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 13). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe41f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 3: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 48). Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] (rev 3). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=25. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xda000000 [0xda007fff]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) (rev 0). IRQ 10. I/O at 0xe800 [0xe81f]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 1). IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd4000000[0xd5ffffff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xd9ffffff]. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd0ff]. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/misc 63 tdfx 175 agpgart 135 rtc 1 psaux 134 apm_bios ------------------------------------------------------------------ /proc/version Linux version 2.4.0-0.99.11 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)) #1 Wed Jan 24 16:07:17 EST 2001 --------------------------------------------------------------------- /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hdb9 partition 200772 136 -1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- /var/dmesg Linux version 2.4.0-0.99.11 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)) #1 Wed Jan 24 16:07:17 EST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000007f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 32768 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28672 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hdb6 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz auto Initializing CPU#0 Detected 551.261 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 1097.72 BogoMIPS Memory: 126240k/131072k available (1091k kernel code, 4444k reserved, 411k data, 220k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb300, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0596] at 00:07.0 Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket DMI 2.2 present. 43 structures occupying 1116 bytes. DMI table at 0x000F0800. BIOS Vendor: Award Software International, Inc. BIOS Version: 4.51 PG BIOS Release: 03/23/00 System Vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.. Product Name: VT82C692BX. Version . Serial Number . apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 83829kB/62872kB, 256 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0:7.1 hda: Maxtor 53073U6, ATA DISK drive hdb: FUJITSU MPF3102AT, ATA DISK drive ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX120E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 60030432 sectors (30736 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3736/255/63, UDMA(66) hdb: 20015856 sectors (10248 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1245/255/63, UDMA(66) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda3 < > hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 LVM version 0.9 by Heinz Mauelshagen (13/11/2000) lvm -- Driver successfully initialized RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 250k freed Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d atp.c:v1.09 8/9/2000 Donald Becker <becker> ACPI: System description tables not found md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2 eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xe800, IRQ 10, 00:60:67:66:71:AA. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=3 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed Adding Swap: 200772k swap-space (priority -1) usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.251 $ time 16:17:52 Jan 24 2001 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2 PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:0f.0 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe400, IRQ10 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected Linux video capture interface: v1.00 V4L-Driver for Vision CPiA based cameras v0.7.4 Parallel port driver for Vision CPiA based cameras v0.7.4 Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ... Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=52 devrev=f4 oldid=ff Winbond chip type 83977EF / SMSC 97w35x Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=07 Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3 Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=0 Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP and EPP-1.7 SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ... 0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes 0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: readIntrThreshold is 16 0x378: PWord is 8 bits 0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses 0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x48 0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=<none or set by other means> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98) parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus usb.c: registered new driver cpia Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 96M agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 --------------------------------------------------------------------- the version of LPRng I am running: [root@BlackRaven log]# rpm -q LPRng LPRng-3.7.4-6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- the version of redhat printfilters I have installed: [root@BlackRaven log]# rpm -q rhs-printfilters rhs-printfilters-1.81-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- the printer I actually have is an Epson Stylus Color 400, however I used Epson Stylus stcany 360X360dpi as this was the closest match I could find for my printer udner the print tool. ------------------------------------------------------------------- from the information listed above it should be obvious I have a Pentium III system with 550 Mhz processor, 128 megs ram, a 30 gig drive and 10 gig drive in my system. I have Red Hat installed on the 10 gig drive. I also have my system partitioned off as recommended in the Red Hat installation howto's. In order to prevent denial of service attacks and to configure my system for maximum security and maintainability I have separate partitions for /var /home /boot /tmp /usr and / --------------------------------------------------------------------
Right. kontrol-panel incorrectly listed LPRngTool as the printer configuration tool. The printer configuration tool is printconf-gui, and this has been fixed in kontrol-panel. The printing system has been completely overhauled. It is much different. Your adventures with rhs-printfilters (which has been obsoleted) have surely confused your system. run printconf-gui