I’ve got a printer connected on my Windows machine and it’s shared so I can print from my Ubuntu Intrepid machine as well using Samba. It works pretty well. I usually only print from OpenOffice 3 but today I had to print an email (Claws mail) and it failed. I got the Printer selection box but when I clicked on print an error message popped up, “Can’t prompt for Authorization”. I checked my printer settings and everything looked fine, so I tried again, another error message popped up: “Too many failed attempts”.
After sending an email to the Claws Mail list, Colin Leroy pointed out it could be a bug in GTK as I also couldn’t print from Gedit. I did some searching on the Internet and found several reports similar to mine but no solution.
I started to do some researching on my laptop and I found a work around to solve the problem.
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Posts Tagged “Intrepid”October 31, 2008 | 2 Comments Previously we discussed how to compile a custom kernel for Ubuntu Intrepid. What if a new version is released? Do we really need to go through all these steps again? Luckily we don’t, if you used git to get the source code. October 30, 2008 | No Comments Today is the day that the new Ubuntu Intrepid has been released. Personally I have been running Intrepid for a couple of weeks, mainly to get a head start of building packages for Getdeb. I love it when a new release come out. Upgrade my laptop, set up a new building environment for package building, check out what new packages are available and what the upgraded packages look like. I mainly use my laptop for development and packaging but I do watch some video’s and listen to some music every now and then. October 28, 2008 | 45 Comments Previously I wrote an article on how to compile a custom kernel for Ubuntu Intrepid, it used the apt-get method for getting the kernel source. If you prefer to use git to get the latest kernel source you can use this post. Most of this post is a copy of the previous post but to make it easier to follow the instructions I decided to write up everything in this post as well. Updates: October 28, 2008 | 95 Comments I run Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 on Dual Core 2 laptop with 4 GB of memory. The default kernel supplied by Ubuntu doesn’t support the 4GB memory, I could choose to run the server kernel but I also want to take advantage of the Core2 support in the kernel so I took it upon myself to compile a custom kernel. Updated: Nov 7, 2008 |
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