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<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:35:13 -0400<br>> From: kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q@public.gmane.org<br>> To: tlug@ss.org<br>> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Stuck with Printing Problem<br>> <br>> On 12-03-15 11:23 AM, Ori Idan wrote:<br>> > I have no problems with printing although I never tried localhost:631 I am<br>> > using printers from the setup menu.<br>> <br>> IIRC, Ubuntu doesn't use (or stopped using) localhost:631. It has the <br>> Printing menu entry under Administration for configuring printers.<br><br>The Printing utility is not doing anything. It tries to start, then
disappears. That's probably because the cups server won't start up (not
finding the shared library).<br>localhost:631 cannot get a connection.<br><br>> <br>> > I have heard many horror stories regarding Ubuntu upgrading. I know many<br>> > people reinstall Ubuntu from scratch instead of upgrading. This can be<br>> > easily done if you have your /home in a separate partition.<br>> <br>> I have heard people saying they have heard stories of problems upgrading <br>> Ubuntu. When I used to run Fedora I found it was often safer to upgrade it <br>> by doing a fresh install. If updating from previous release it may be ok but <br>> if you were skipping a release upgrades tended to be more problematic.<br>> <br>> I have had much better luck doing upgrades under Ubuntu. I haven't yet had <br>> to do a fresh install of Ubuntu to upgrade. The only problems I currently <br>> have are minor ones and might have been due to my removing all packages <br>> relating to Unity (in 11.04) then installing packages for Gnome 2 after <br>> booting 11.04 for the first time and quickly realizing I couldn't live with <br>> Unity.<br><br>I wasn't upgrading ubuntu, only updating packages listed on the update manager. My in-laws don't do any updating (they usually forget everything I've said as soon as I go out the door), so there were over 250 packages to download.<br><br>Besides printing, I also lost all function in firefox (had to remove and re-install - then it crashed a bunch of times), and lost the gnome clock aplet (after a few tries gave up trying to add it back to the panel). There could be other failures I haven't run into.<br><br>John.<br></div> </div></body>
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