Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53766
printconf-gui fails to update /etc/printcap, /etc/lpd.conf
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:37:12 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i586) Description of problem: When attempting to set up a local printer, printconf-gui fails to update the /etc/printcap file and the /etc/lpd.conf file. This is the first time a printer has been installed on the system. This option was bypassed during the Linux installation. The driver is for an HP1100 (lj4). Restarting lpd from the gui reports success, however, it really fails. None of the above mentioned files were updated. /etc/printcap has absolutely nothing added to it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Launch printconf-gui 2.choose local printer 3.HP1100 driver Actual Results: After restarting the lpd from the gui, it reports success. Yet printing a test page results in failure and it asks you to make sure lpd is running. It is not. Expected Results: The printcap and lpd.conf files should have been updated and the lpd properly started. Additional info: Running printconf-gui from the cmd line: [root@lt1 /root]# printconf-gui Status Information: sending job 'root@lt1+474' to queue0@localhost connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 cannot open connection to localhost - Connection refused Make sure LPD server is running on the server Can't locate overload.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/Data/Dumper.pm line 19. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/printconf/util/make_mfomatic_cfg.pl line 127. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/printconf/util/make_mfomatic_cfg.pl line 127. Running lpd in the foreground and doing this showed lpd attempting to use "missingprinter" which is the default. This shows that lpd.conf was never updated with the new printer.
I get the same errors when just using the text driver. However, the raw driver (really, no driver) actually sets up a queue and when I sent the test text page the lights on the printer start blinking. Nothing ever prints because no printer control codes are involved with this driver. The more I poke around, the more it looks like something isn't right between printconf-gui and foomatic. Phil
rpm -V reports: printconf-0.2.12-1 printconf-gui-0.2.12-1 LPRng-3.7.4-23 (original was -22. Updates/errata were applied after installation) However, rpm -V printconf reports: Unsatisfied dependencies for printconf-0.2.12-1: perl, /usr/bin/perl S.?....T c /etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/local.adl ..?..... /etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf/rpm.adl ..?..... c /etc/alchemist/switchboard/printconf.switchboard.adl These files do exist in the file system and rpm -ql printconf lists these files as part of the printconf package. Phil
For fun, I rpm -e'd printconf, printconf-gui and LPRng. When I attempted to reinstall printconf, rpm reported: error: failed dependancies: perl is needed by printconf-0.2.12-1 /usr/bin/perl is needed by printconf-0.2.12-1 which perl reports: /usr/bin/perl perl -v reports: This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386 linux However, rpm -q perl reports: package Perl is not installed Was perl really not part of the default install on a laptop? What's really weird is that rpm -qf /usr/bin/perl reports: file /usr/bin/perl is not owned by any package. Something's not right.
I installed the perl package and everything now works. I believe that this is a QA issue for Redhat. My laptop installation used the default laptop option from the installer using all free space on the disk. I had one small DOS partition that was left alone. Printing is broken in this configuration. This needs to be confirmed. I don't want to pave my laptop again. I'm changing the status of this to, "fix waiting for confirmation." Phil
Are you guys alive??
I can't reproduce this at all. It sounds like something went wrong with your RPM database, but I can't imagine what.