Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 21:24 -0400, Frank Griffin wrote:
>  
>> Ben Popatopalous wrote:
>>  
>>> [...] Now every time I reboot printerdrake runs, tries to
>>> install already installed packages, and ends with 'Cannot install
>>> cups' even though cups is installed. [...]
>>>    
>> This is happening in cooker in general, and has nothing to do with your
>> printer model.
>>  
>
> I saw in /var/log/messages,
> Jul 15 18:20:22 dell printerdrake[7190]: running: /bin/rpm -q --qf
> %{name} task-printing-server cups foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine
> foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters gutenprint-cups gutenprint-foomatic
> hplip-model-data nmap scli webfetch foomatic-db-engine gutenprint-gimp2
> desktop-printing
>
> and indeed, instaling those packages made the error message go away.
> Although I don't have any printer needing hplip or hpijs.
>
> My GNOME session now finishes with the splash box, displays my desktop
> background, and then does nothing more, so that I have to log in to a
> virtual terminal and start gnome-terminal and a window manager. But
> I have lots of lovely zombie processes. I don't think it's related to
> the CUPS nonsense, though.
>
> See e.g.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-devel-list@(protected)
>
> But judging from that thread it's a mis-matched hal and dbus, although
> whether that can also cause spurious messages about CPUS I don't know.
>
> Looks like GNOME hasn't quite settled down yet.
>
> Liam
>
>  
I'm currently using KDE 3 and I have all those packages and still
getting same egregious error. Dag Nab It!