Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

[John Blinka]

Uwe Thiem wrote:

>
>This looks very wrong. What happens if you copy the file from the unaffected
>box over?
>
>
>
Success at last!  Here's what I did on the affected box:

1)  emerge -C cups.

      After removing cups, I noted that the /etc/cups directory
      still existed with all of its old contents.  None of it had
      been removed.

2)  cd /etc/cups
      mv mime.types mime.types.old
      mv mime.convs mime.convs.old

3)  emerge cups

      After this step, a new, different mime.types was installed.
      It was identical to the mime.types file on my unaffected systems.

4)  fire up browser, point it at http://localhost:631.  No problems
     configuring printers.

Previous attempts to do steps 1) and 3) above, but not 2) resulted
in an unchanged, obsolete, and incorrect version of mime.types.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions in debugging this problem!

John
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