From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-6enterprise i686) Description of problem: printconf-0.3.36-1 fails to set up printers properly When I try to print any test page all I get is seveal lines of output from my Epson Stylus Color 800; "**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting." My HP just does a form-feed and quits. Selecting different drivers has no effect. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. printconf 2. set up a couple of printers 3. highlight printer , run test, restart lpd ... Actual Results: "**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting." Expected Results: test page printed Additional info: 2001/09/09 16:30 MST Running a clean roswell beta2 with up2date reporting everything up to date. printconf-0.3.36-1 fails to set up printers properly When I try to print any test page all I get is seveal lines of output from my Epson Stylus Color 800; "**** Unable to open the initial device, quitting." My HP just does a form-feed and quits. Sorry I don't know where the bug is but, resorting to the RedHat 7.1 printconf and printconf-gui fixes the problem. rm /etc/printcap rm /var/spool/lpd/epsonStylusColor800 rm /var/spool/lpd/HPpsc750 rpm -U --oldpackage printconf-0.2.8-1.i386.rpm printconf-gui-0.2.8-1.i386.rpm checkpc -f #configure printers Printers come back to life.
This seems to be the same bug as bug #54913. Are you still seeing the problem? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54913 ***