I have been posting printing issues for a while, but cannot seem to get any solid answers to my problem.

I have RH9 with a Brother MFC8300 printer. After initial installation my printer functioned....after 1 month or so of screwing around learning Linux my printer is no longer recognized by Printer manager. When I try to print , computer just kinda sits there for a while doing nothing.

I tried to run redhat-config-printer, but I get these errors...what do they mean?????

[root@localhost glenn]# redhat-config-printer
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/redhat-config-printer", line 9, in ?
import queueTree
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 929, in ?
queueTree()
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/queueTree.py", line 101, in __init__
if cups_import.import_needed ():
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 200, in import_needed
which = which_spooler ()
File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 195, in which_spooler
return which
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'which' referenced before assignment

Please help a desperate Linux Newbie. Thanks.

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_pr...other-MFC-8300

not a Guru

have you tried reinstalling your printer queue
run
redhat-config-printer

run these to restart cups

( that is what you've got it set up for ? )


/sbin/chkconfig cups-lpd off
/sbin/service xinetd reload
/sbin/chkconfig cups-lpd on

I re installed cups, redhat-config-printer and ...printer-gui, and desktop-printing, and anything else I could think of to reinstall.

However, when I try to run redhat-config-printer the configure screen pops up with nothing displayed inside of it and the computer just sits there very much like Windows would . I think it is trying to connect to localhost.blah blah blah but it never does and finally times out. What the heck is localhost, is it somewhere on the net or is it in my computer and why won't it connect, and why can't I print, and why could I print before but not now, and why, and why............Sorry, I lost it there for a minute just needed a little venting time.

Any help would be appreciated. Isn't there one of those files somewhere that I could display for you that would answer these questions?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by glenn69
What the heck is localhost, is it somewhere on the net or is it in my computer and why won't it connect, ...

"localhost" is supposed to be the name you gave your computer when you installed. It's the part that preceeds the "@". Suppose you called it "sam@future....etc. then "sam" would be the localhost. What your software is telling you is that it doesn't know that the localhost is "sam". Try going through your post-installation procedure again and look for something like "network settings".

Hope it helps.

Thanks for the reply, but what exactly would my "post installation procedure" be.

Sorry I found my network settings, but I have a couple questions.
Under DNS tab, I have the option to name hostname. Currently that is
localhost.localdomain. My DNS search path is loocaldomain. Are these the things that I can change, and if so can I name them whatever i would like. Also, by changing these will itaffect programs that have used the old names.

look at /etc/hosts

It should have something like this..


127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.10.10.10 hostname.domain.com hostname


10.10.10.10 is an example use your ip address

The first part should stay as is, the second part would be if you have another name for your computer and domain

If you do not have a domain and want to use a hostname only then you can use this

10.10.10.10 hostname

Or you can create a line like this instead

127.0.0.1 hostname

if you do not have an ip address

My etc/hosts file is here :

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
localhost

Thats it...nothing else. Is this my problem of why I never connect to localhost etc?

that's not right for sure, change it to this


127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

this may help too. my /etc/hosts file reads sort of like this:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.98 thiscomputer.mydomain.com thiscomputer
192.168.1.101 thatcomputer.mydomain.com thatcomputer