Guest motox Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 I had Mandrake Update perform many of the security updates a few days ago (~ 24 Jan). The updates included those for the printing system. After updating I had lost the ability to print in Mandrake 9.0 Powerpack. My printer is an old Hp Laserjet 6L parallel port which still works well on the windoze side of the dual boot. As per the suggestions outlined in the "View newest post can't print anymore" post on this Forum, I removed most of the updated printer packages, uninstalled the printer, then reinstalled from CD the old pronter packages. All to no avail. Following is the list of packages I was concerned with: Printer Security upgrades Removed to reenable printing 9.0/RPMS/cups-drivers-1.1-84.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/foomatic-2.0.2-20021220.2.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/ghostscript-module-X-7.05-33.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/libijs0-0.34-24.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/printer-filters-1.0-84.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/printer-testpages-1.0-84.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/printer-utils-1.0-84.2mdk.i586.rpm Printer Security upgrades which were not uninstalled (too many dependancies): 9.0/RPMS/ghostscript-7.05-33.2mdk.i586.rpm Printer Security upgrades (listed on Mandrake Secure) which could not be removed (not installed): 9.0/RPMS/gimpprint-4.2.5-0.2.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/libgimpprint1-4.2.5-0.2.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/libgimpprint1-devel-4.2.5-0.2.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/libijs0-devel-0.34-24.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/RPMS/omni-0.7.1-11.2mdk.i586.rpm 9.0/SRPMS/printer-drivers-1.0-84.2mdk.src.rpm Thanks for the ideas so far! New tries are way better than reinstall distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 29, 2003 Report Share Posted January 29, 2003 You didn't mention if you tried to reconfigure the printer in the Mandrake Control Center. Are there 2 running cups services in System>Services, or with services -s from a terminal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest motox Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 I typed in the services command and got command not found. Three cupsd processes were listed on the KDE System Guard Process table. I removed the following package with all the depends: 9.0/RPMS/ghostscript-7.05-33.2mdk.i586.rpm Then reinstalled the original printing packages. Good News! I can print again! Thanks for helping guide me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 Glad to hear it! I made an as root, try service -s Sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ang Posted February 2, 2003 Report Share Posted February 2, 2003 If you are using HP 710, 712,722, 820 or 1000. After applying the security patch, the new rpm will overwrite your pnm2ppa.conf file. Solution: - edit the /etc/pnm2ppa.conf file - comment out the line with 'version 0' - uncomment the entry for your default printer model Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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