Troubleshooting
7.7 Common Linux Problems
Problem | Possible Cause and Solution |
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I can't change settings in the | You need to have administrator privileges to be able to change global |
configuration tool. | settings. |
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I am using the KDE desktop but | You may not have the GTK libraries installed. These usually come with most |
the configuration tool and LLPR | Linux distributions, but you may have to install them manually. Refer to your |
won't start. | distribution's installation manual for more details about installing additional |
| packages. |
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I just installed this package but | Some versions of the KDE or GNOME desktop environments may require |
can't find entries in the KDE/ | that you restart your session for the changes to take effect. |
Gnome menus. |
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I get a "Some options are not | Some printers have conflicting settings, meaning that some settings for two |
selected" error message while | options can't be selected at the same time. When you change a setting and |
editing the printer settings. | the Printer Package detects such a conflict, the conflicting option is changed |
| to a "No Choice" value. You have to choose an option that does not conflict |
| before being able to submit the changes. |
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I can't make a printer the system | In some conditions, it may not be possible to change the default queue. This |
default. | happens with some variants of LPRng, especially on recent RedHat systems |
| that use the "printconf" database of queues. |
| When using printconf, the /etc./printcap file is automatically refreshed from |
| the database of printers managed by the system (usually through the "print- |
| tool" command), and the queues in /etc./printcap.local are appended to the |
| resulting file. The default queue in LPRng is defined as the first queue in |
| /etc./printcap, and therefore it is not possible for the Linux Printer Package to |
| change the default when some queues have otherwise been defined using |
| printtool. |
| LPD systems identify the default queue as the one named "lp". Thus, if there |
| is already a queue by this name, and if it doesn't have an alias, then you |
| won't be able to change the default. To work around this, you can either |
| delete the queue or rename it by manually editing the /etc./printcap file. |
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The | The |
correctly for some of my | that is sent to the printing system. However, such |
documents. | only be adequately achieved if the PostScript data conforms to the Adobe |
| Document Structing Conventions. Problems may arise when using |
| and other features that rely on |
| isn't compliant. |
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I am using BSD lpr (Slackware, | Legacy BSD lpr systems have a hard limitation on the length of the option |
Debian, older distributions) and | string that can be passed to the printing system. As such, if you selected a |
some options chosen in LLPR | number of different options, you may have exceeded the length of the |
don't seem to take effect. | options and some of your choices won't be passed to the programs |
| responsible for implementing them. Try to select fewer options that deviate |
| from the defaults, to save on memory usage. |
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