Many thanks rcrsn51. Looking forward to 4.2.1!

Martin
(Default system Puppy 4.1.2 on Thinkpad R50)

Hi, after some further testing, the CUPS-problem became more clear: It has nothing to do with Java or Openoffice, it is a matter of how CUPS is accessed: Menu>Setup>CUPS Printer Wizard Works fine and reliable. Menu>System>Manage Printing Kills CUPS nearly always! After manual restart of CUPS ../etc/...

Try to manually restart CUPS with the command Code: /etc/init.d/cups start Are you accessing CUPS through Menu > System > Manage Printing? Tnx for the hint! Restarting CUPS manually works. Also I meanwhile experimented a bit, and the effect became more clear: - Started with new blank 4.2 installati...

My default machine is a IBM Thinkpad R50, 1.4GHz with 512MB RAM. Before posting here I also tried on other machines like a old 650MHz 512MB DELL Laptop, and on a High-performing Dual-core with 2GB RAM, all with the same effect: As soon a Java is installed, printing doesn't work any more (and CUPS en...

When Java is installed (by .pet, or manually from the SUN homepage), printing is killed: CUPS is not accessible anymore (can not connect to localhost...), and also printing itself (HP Laserjet 4L on lp0) doesn't work anymore. Some posts before in this blog I read about some trouble with printing, an...

When Java is installed (by .pet, or manually from the SUN homepage), printing is killed: CUPS is not accessible anymore (can not connect to localhost...), and also printing itself (HP Laserjet 4L on lp0) doesn't work anymore. Some posts before in this blog I read about some trouble with printing, an...