ARGH!!!! And it's finals week.
OK, Here, here it go . . .
downloaded
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/h...1.tgz?download
$ tar xzvf hpoj-0.91.tgz
successful
cd in dir
$configure
$make
$sudo make install
all no problem and ok
I read and follow the instructions from the hpoj Documentation
restart the cups daeman
ran the web based printer config for cups and printed out a test page.
tried checking for scanning recognition (its an HP OJ 6110) and failed
decided to restart the system
Here is where the fun began.
System starts up . . . everything ok . . . system starts . . . and I get a blue screen with my mouse as a clock waiting with no luck. I cannot even get a login prompt. X won't start.
It must have been something with the printer configuration. So I fumble my way around and discover that ctrl-alt-<function keys> will display different consoles. And I get into a prompt.
Try killing X and restart but with no luck. The only way that I was able to get X to start and use was to be in the F7 display and ctrl-alt-backspace a couple of times so I could log in as root, locate the process id for X and run the command
%kill <pid> ; xdm
#tried startx, but startx will not work
this started enlightenment but was unable to start any other graphical application like gnome-panel.
the following is my .Xclients-default:
#! /bin/bash
gnome-panel &
magicdev &
exec enlightenment
The errors which I get when I try running gnome-panel is the following:
$ gnome-panel
gnome-panel: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_Set_Hint_Flags
Actually, when I try running Firefox, Thunderbird, gnome-session, gaim . . .
$ firefox
(QFA)Talkback error: Can't initialize.
/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_Set_Hint_Flags
$ thunderbird
/usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined symbol: FT_Set_Hint_Flags
$ gaim
Gaim has segfaulted and attempted to dump a core file.
This is a bug in the software and has happened through
no fault of your own.
. . .
Aborted
I can't figure this out! Why is there a relocation error?!?
After reading more into the Documentation there was a mention of the ptal service needing to start before any spooler services or there could be hangs in subsequent boots. So on reboot I went through an interactive setup and verified that is was starting before my spooler service. In fact after running redhat-switch-printer and changing to CUPS, this is what I get from another reboot:
...
Dec 7 23:17:10 localhost network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:20 localhost xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:21 localhost ntpd: succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:21 localhost ntpd: succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:21 localhost ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:24 localhost sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:24 localhost sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:25 localhost gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:25 localhost crond: crond startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:25 localhost cups: cupsd startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:28 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:28 localhost anacron: anacron startup succeeded
Dec 7 23:17:29 localhost atd: atd startup succeeded
...
I tried running a "make uninstall" to no avail, it is not supported for the hpoj driver.
Please help, I know that hpoj changed some vital library which is needed by the Xserver and most other applications. I do not know where all the files were installed from the make install (yes, i tried an rpm but one was not available for RH8, and yes . . .damn the red hat jokes, just forget them.) Besides, I am worried that deleting the files will not make a difference as deleting files manually do not undo any changes they might have made in my filesystem.
I will post more output errors from trying to start X.
Thank you in advance.
