Re: eggcups dieing in FC4

From: Jim Foyle (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 06/25/05 

Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:47:39 -0500

"Reynolds McClatchey" <nospam_r_e_y@saf.com> wrote in message
news:7321e$42bc0eb6$4200038b$2711@EDELTACOM.COM...
> Every print job kills eggcups and I must check a window box
> to restart it. This began in FC3 when I upgraded from FC2.
> So I upgraded to FC4 - not a fix. Then a fresh install of FC4 trying to
> make eggcups work. Printing works fine and it looks like
> all eggcups does is put the printer icon on the gnome panel.
> All users including root have the problem.
>
> Where can I get some docs on eggcups?
> What starts it?
> How can I prevent it from running?
> Does it need to run at all?
>
> Here is the way it looks from ps when restarted from the error box.
> (I added the backslashes):
> rey 2912 1 0 08:40 ? 00:00:00\
> eggcups --sm-config-prefix /eggcups-nEOhKL/\
> --sm-client-id 117f000001000111886956100000026720003\
> --screen 0
>
> I have had the eggcups problem for several months now.
> Eggcups was my main motivation to go to FC4.
>
> I tried deleting and reinstalling cups
> when I was running FC3 - not a fix.
> I am thinking of deleting gnome. Is that possible? kde is installed.
> Then reinstalling gnome.

I had a similar problem. It was solved by re-prelinking everything. As root,
enter the command

prelink -af

I think that was the command.

You may get a lot of prelink error messages, just ignore them.

The problem is caused by a lot of updates, I was told.

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