Subject: Re: lpd boondoggle
From: Ben Stanley (bds02@uow.edu.au)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 16:42:47 MST
Cal Grandy wrote:
> At 07:29 AM 3/14/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Check your /var/log/messages
>>
>> If it says lpd fialed to startup, find out why? As I recall, you said
>> something about failed to open localhost. I had the same problem (I
>> was tired and forgot to edit a particular file).
>>
>> You need to edit your /etc/hosts file and add your local IP adddress
>> into there. As an example, this is my /etc/hosts file:
>
>
> Nothing in the messages about lpd failing to start.
>
> The /ect/hosts file on my machine looks similar to yours. Except there
> are some extra periods after the IP addresses.
Probably shouldn't have those extra periods...
Test it by using the 'host' command to look up the names. If you can't
look up things like localhost then that explains it.
> I logged in as root this morning, set the "service lpd start" command
> manually, and tried to print. It failed. The following messages were
> added to my /var/log/messages. I have no idea what they mean.
>
> kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> kernal: FAT VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:07.
These have nothing do do with printing - it's trying to find a FAT (DOS)
filesystem on some device - I can't decode the device numbers. Why it's
trying to mount a filesystem I don't know... perhaps you need to check
your /etc/fstab as well.
Ben.
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