SUSE 10.1 Printer problem


I was the poster last week who wanted to know if I would keep my documents &c. when I loaded a new SUSE system on a machine that had been running RH Workstation.

Store-bought packaged SUSE v10.1
Compaq Professional Workstation AP550, SCSI HD, external SCSI Zip100 drive, internal FDD.

Loaded SUSE as a new dual-boot install on a machine that was successfully running RH Workstation (Once I remembered that you have to use DOS FDISK before mucking with partitions in Linux...). I've done a diligent search of Linux sites and Google Groups but didn't find answers that helped.

Problem 1:

SUSE correctly senses local printer, a HP LaserJet 6L on parallel port 0. I am unable to print to it. As Root from YaST2 I attempt to print test pages that always result in an error message window:

Unable to print test page.
Output from lpr:
lpr: error - unable to print file: server-error-not-accepting-jobs.
[OK]

Attempting to print as a merehuman user from the printer setup utility resulted in:
Printing to 'laserjet6l' failed with error code: 1286
is the printer paused?

The printer is ready, and is reported by the utility as on /dev/lp0.

This is a fragment from /var/log/messages:
------------------CUT HERE--------------------------------------------
Feb 25 13:57:13 (none) dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
Feb 25 13:57:13 (none) dhclient: bound to 192.168.0.2 -- renewal in 1540 seconds.
Feb 25 13:58:29 (none) kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Feb 25 13:58:29 (none) kernel: parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L
Feb 25 13:58:29 (none) kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
Feb 25 13:58:29 (none) kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Feb 25 13:58:29 (none) kernel: parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L
Feb 25 13:58:29 (none) kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Feb 25 14:00:03 (none) hp: unable to open /var/run/hpiod.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 84
Feb 25 14:00:03 (none) hp: unable to connect hpiod socket 50000: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 703
Feb 25 14:00:03 (none) hp: unable to send ProbeDevices: Broken pipe
---------------------------CUT HERE---------------------------

I am also unable to print to a networked, ancient Action Laser 1500 that worked well under the previous system, but I haven't looked deeply into that yet.


Problem 2:

SUSE sees the floppy drive and provides me with a handy desktop icon, but refuses to easily mount it. Attempts to mount the drive as root from the desktop result in an error message window:

Mount Error
Operation failed.
[show more details]
Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface
"org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist.
[OK]

I am able to mount to device successfully as root from a terminal window, but that's clunky.


Problem 3:

SUSE senses the external SCSI Zip 100 drive and provide me wit ha handy desktop icon for it, but will not mount it from the desktop. The error messsage window:

Mount Error
Could not create dbus message
[show more details]
Mount.
[OK]

I was able to successfully mount it from a terminal window as root and moved the files I needed off, but /that/ is part of Problem 4. When I attempted to unmount it from the desktop the system complainted that it couldn't figure out where the device was mounted.

I'll include the contents of fstab as soon as I can figure out how to copy and paste _from_ it. Apologies for my lack of skills.


Problem 4:

The files that I moved off the Zip drive I put into my user account. Because I did this as root they are locked to me as a user, I can open them but I cannot modify them. What do I need to do to make them editable as the user?








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