[lug] Problem with CUP, Fedora core 2, Python

[Elyse M. Grasso]

I'm using the current KRUD FC2 release. I have a Samsung ML-1740 printer, 
which was working at one point, a few updates ago. 

Now when I boot my laptop,cups fails to come up with the following messages:
/etc/init.d/cups start
Starting cups: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/printconf-backend", line 7, in ?
    import backend
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/backend.py", line 54, in ?
    which = cups_import.which_spooler ()
  File "/usr/share/printconf/util/cups_import.py", line 191, in which_spooler
    which = l.split ('.')[1].strip ()
IndexError: list index out of range
cupsd: Child exited with status 98!
                                                           [FAILED]



which_spooler looks like this:
def which_spooler ():
    """Return the name of the active spooler."""
    signal.signal (signal.SIGCHLD, signal.SIG_DFL)
    f = os.popen ('/usr/sbin/alternatives --display print')
    for l in f.readlines ():
        if l.startswith (" link currently points to"):
            which = l.split ('.')[1].strip ()
            break

    f.close ()
    return which

and the output of alternatives looks like this:
/usr/sbin/alternatives --display print
print - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/local/linuxprinter/bin/llpr
/usr/bin/lpr.cups - priority 40
 slave print-cancel: /usr/bin/cancel.cups
 slave print-lp: /usr/bin/lp.cups
 slave print-lpq: /usr/bin/lpq.cups
 slave print-lprm: /usr/bin/lprm.cups
 slave print-lpstat: /usr/bin/lpstat.cups
 slave print-lpc: /usr/sbin/lpc.cups
 slave print-cancelman: /usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lpman: /usr/share/man/man1/lp-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lpqman: /usr/share/man/man1/lpq-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lprman: /usr/share/man/man1/lpr-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lprmman: /usr/share/man/man1/lprm-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lpstatman: /usr/share/man/man1/lpstat-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lpcman: /usr/share/man/man8/lpc-cups.8.gz
/usr/local/linuxprinter/bin/llpr - priority 90
 slave print-cancel: /usr/bin/cancel.cups
 slave print-lp: /usr/local/linuxprinter/bin/llpr
 slave print-lpq: /usr/bin/lpq.cups
 slave print-lprm: /usr/bin/lprm.cups
 slave print-lpstat: /usr/bin/lpstat.cups
 slave print-lpc: /usr/sbin/lpc.cups
 slave print-cancelman: /usr/share/man/man1/cancel-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lpman: /usr/share/man/man1/lp-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lpqman: /usr/share/man/man1/lpq-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lprman: /usr/share/man/man1/lpr-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lprmman: /usr/share/man/man1/lprm-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lpstatman: /usr/share/man/man1/lpstat-cups.1.gz
 slave print-lpcman: /usr/share/man/man8/lpc-cups.8.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/local/linuxprinter/bin/llpr.

I really would like to be able to print. Any suggestsions for how to work 
around this problem would be deeply appreciated.
-- 
Elyse Grasso

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