Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

[Ernie Schroder]

On Saturday 25 February 2006 19:12, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to 
write:
> Ernie Schroder wrote:
> >Make sure that you have the file:
> >
> >/usr/share/cups/docs/index.html
> >
> >and that it opens as a webpage in a browser Of course I'm assuming that
> > other html pages display properly.
>
> It's there.   In fact, that's the file that's being displayed improperly.
> Its contents are identical to the same file on other systems I own
> which display correctly, so that's not the problem.  And all other
> html pages display correctly.  So...
>
> 1)  the problem is not the contents, permissions, or presence
>      of the file - they're all identical to other systems in which
>      the file displays properly.  In fact, the file displays
>      properly (almost) if I access it as
>      file:///usr/share/cups/docs/index.html instead of
>      http://localhost:631
> 2)  the problem is not specific to a browser - the same behavior
>      occurs with Firefox and Konqueror.
> 3)  the problem is not html per se - all other html pages display
>      properly.
> 4)  if I stop cupsd, then the browser claims that the request
>      for http://localhost:631 is refused.
>
> The evidence suggests to me that there's something unfortunate
> happening with whatever occurs when I supply http://localhost:631
> to the browser.  cupsd is the agent listening at port 631 and it's
> the source of the error.  I'm guessing that when cupsd supplies the
> contents of /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html  to the browser, the browser
> doesn't realize that it's receiving html and so renders it as raw text.
>
> John


Very strange.... Have you looked at the logs? /var/log/cups/access_log 
and /var/log/cups/error_log look at a tail of them and compare to the working 
machines.
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Regards, Ernie
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