Re: CUPS won't start

[nosp <nosp xades com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:01, Jacob Shreffler wrote:
[...]
> It appears that I don't have cupsd running, so I try to start the CUPS
> service:
> # /etc/init.d/cups start
> cupsd: Child exited with status 99!
> cups: started scheduler.                                   [  OK  ]
> 
> cupsd is still not a process! An error like this repeatedly appears in
> /var/log/cups/error_log:
> E [01/Dec/2003:17:50:36 -0500] StartListening: Unable to bind socket -
> Cannot assign requested address.
> 
> 'nmap localhost' does not show port 631 (ipp) to be open.
> What have I overlooked? Do I need port 631 open to print? Do I need
> cupsd? Any ideas?

Do you have anything weird at the end of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, like a
"Listen xx.xx.xx.xx ppp" line whose IP address is not your own?  I have
this problem all the time.  Remove the line where cupsd tries to listen
on a non-local IP and cupsd starts fine.

HTH.