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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 13:53:39 -0500
From: Doug McGarrett
Dear listmembers,
a couple of weeks ago I posted a request concerning my problems of printing after upgrading to SuSE 7.0 (I would NEVER do it again! how many troubles for nothing more!). I waited before writing again to you, because I sent again a help request to SuSE. Since I had no answer, I take again the liberty to ask you if you can help me -- a computer without a printer is almost useless!
As suggested by some kind listmembers, I installed again the printer using Yast2. The "Hello wourld" page comes out correctly. Then the pritner (a very common HPLj3) is apparently installed correctly. But after that, what I get after trying to print with
lpr -Pprinter1 moglie.txt
is no printout and this message:
lpr -Pprinter1 ~/moglie.txt Dec 1 12:19:15 pentiumiii lpr printer1: remote host pentiumiii.miarete: illegal ack code '$@': Pipe rotta Your print job has been sent to printer 'printer1', job 2, rank: 2nd.
"Pipe rotta" is the Italian for "broken pipe".
A lpq command outputs :
Local printer 'printer1' on pentiumiii.miarete: Warning: queue is not active (no server present). Rank Owner Pr Job Host Files % Form Size Time 1st guido X 1 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... - 6.5K 12:09 2nd guido X 2 pentiumiii /home/guido/moglie... - 6.5K 12:19
what on earth is happening? This "printer1" is the default name given by Yast2. I did not change it because I have only one printer, can call it with any name. But why "no server present"? Should I delete all of the contents of the spool directory? Or should I install everything from scratch?
I am very upset with SuSE. I think I will back up my files, erase everything in the Linux partition and install Corel. I am also sorry because, since I teach in an educational department, I was thinking to start a big campaing for Open Source and so on in Italian schools -- but how can I do it, if paid support offered by the most popular Linux distribution in Italy is so weak? Besides that, I tried to persuade the SuSE support to print their manual in English if not in German -- their Italian is so horrible that I often must translate it back to German in order to understand it.
Best regards, and thanks anyway! g.
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