cupsd will not start

I am using SUSE 10.0. I cannot get cupsd to start. in the boot log
there is an entry that says:

cupsd: Child exited on signal 1!

When I try to start cupsd manually through Konsole or YAST I get an entry
that says:

cupsd: Child exited on signal 15!

I found an entry on the Debian site about this and it said to downgrade
cups. I have found nothing close on the Novell or SUSE sites. YAST
detects my printer. It is listed as unconfigured. When I try to
configure it, YAST gives me an error communicating with cups server.

Does anybody have any ideas???

rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> I found an entry on the Debian site about this and it said to downgrade
> cups. I have found nothing close on the Novell or SUSE sites. YAST
> detects my printer. It is listed as unconfigured. When I try to
> configure it, YAST gives me an error communicating with cups server.

Oh, I had a nice fight with cups this week. It turned out my /etc/hosts file
was having an error because I played around with the network. Anyway, what
you can do is turn on debugging on in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and try and
restart it again as root and see what output you get in /var/log/cups/*

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Ruurd

> rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> > I found an entry on the Debian site about this and it said to
downgrade
> > cups. I have found nothing close on the Novell or SUSE sites. YAST
> > detects my printer. It is listed as unconfigured. When I try to
> > configure it, YAST gives me an error communicating with cups server.
>
> Oh, I had a nice fight with cups this week. It turned out my /etc/hosts
file
> was having an error because I played around with the network. Anyway,
what
> you can do is turn on debugging on in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and try and
> restart it again as root and see what output you get in /var/log/cups/*
>
> --
> Ruurd

I believe that I have found a problem. My cupsd.conf file has only the
following entries:

BrowseAddress @LOCAL
Browsing On
<Location/>
Order Allow,Deny
</Location>

I also have a cupsd.conf_siga file that has exactly the same thing.

The cups error log log says that no valid Listen or Port Lines were found
in the configuration file!
Lpq: unable to contact server:
lpr: error - scheduler not responding

What I need now is an example of what I should have. Can anybody help.

rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> I believe that I have found a problem. My cupsd.conf file has only the
> following entries:
>
> BrowseAddress @LOCAL
> Browsing On
> <Location/>
> Order Allow,Deny
> </Location>

Woops... Should have a loooot more lines.

> What I need now is an example of what I should have. Can anybody help.

Re-installing the cups server might be the shortest route to having a proper
set of configuration files.

--
Ruurd

> rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> > I believe that I have found a problem. My cupsd.conf file has only
the
> > following entries:
> >
> > BrowseAddress @LOCAL
> > Browsing On
> > <Location/>
> > Order Allow,Deny
> > </Location>
>
> Woops... Should have a loooot more lines.
>
> > What I need now is an example of what I should have. Can anybody
help.
>
> Re-installing the cups server might be the shortest route to having a
proper
> set of configuration files.
>
> --
> Ruurd

I have tried reinstalling. I keep getting the same thing.

rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>>
>> > I believe that I have found a problem. My cupsd.conf file has only
> the
>> > following entries:
>> >
>> > BrowseAddress @LOCAL
>> > Browsing On
>> > <Location/>
>> > Order Allow,Deny
>> > </Location>
>>
>> Woops... Should have a loooot more lines.
>>
>> > What I need now is an example of what I should have. Can anybody
> help.
>>
>> Re-installing the cups server might be the shortest route to having a
> proper
>> set of configuration files.
>
> I have tried reinstalling. I keep getting the same thing.

Uninstall cups, remove the above file, then reinstall cups.


B

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> rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >> rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >>
> >> > I believe that I have found a problem. My cupsd.conf file has
only
> > the
> >> > following entries:
> >> >
> >> > BrowseAddress @LOCAL
> >> > Browsing On
> >> > <Location/>
> >> > Order Allow,Deny
> >> > </Location>
> >>
> >> Woops... Should have a loooot more lines.
> >>
> >> > What I need now is an example of what I should have. Can anybody
> > help.
> >>
> >> Re-installing the cups server might be the shortest route to having
a
> > proper
> >> set of configuration files.
> >
> > I have tried reinstalling. I keep getting the same thing.
>
> Uninstall cups, remove the above file, then reinstall cups.
>
>
> B
>
> --
> http://www.mailtrap.org.uk/

I've successfully reinstalled cups. now when I try to start cupsd I get
the following error message:

cupsd: Child exited with status 98

I believe this means something else is using port 631. How do I find out
what this is and fix it?

rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> I've successfully reinstalled cups. now when I try to start cupsd I get
> the following error message:
>
> cupsd: Child exited with status 98

What's in the log file?

> I believe this means something else is using port 631. How do I find out
> what this is and fix it?

As root:

netstat -tnap | grep 631

Lat column is the process name. Post the output.

--
Ruurd

> rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> > I've successfully reinstalled cups. now when I try to start cupsd I
get
> > the following error message:
> >
> > cupsd: Child exited with status 98
>
> What's in the log file?
>
> > I believe this means something else is using port 631. How do I find
out
> > what this is and fix it?
>
> As root:
>
> netstat -tnap | grep 631
>
> Lat column is the process name. Post the output.
>
> --
> Ruurd

I've identified the offending process as lpstat. I guess that now I have
to get this to listen on another port or have cupsd start first. What is
the best solution?

> > rschmiegelt@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >
> > > I've successfully reinstalled cups. now when I try to start cupsd
I
> get
> > > the following error message:
> > >
> > > cupsd: Child exited with status 98
> >
> > What's in the log file?
> >
> > > I believe this means something else is using port 631. How do I
find
> out
> > > what this is and fix it?
> >
> > As root:
> >
> > netstat -tnap | grep 631
> >
> > Lat column is the process name. Post the output.
> >
> > --
> > Ruurd
>
> I've identified the offending process as lpstat. I guess that now I
have
> to get this to listen on another port or have cupsd start first. What
is
> the best solution?

I now have cups started. I used the command rccups restart. I received
no errors. Nothing else is listening on port 631. However, when I use
YAST to try to see my printer, it has trouble communicating with the cups
server. I can find nothing related to this in any log file. Any
Ideas???