restarting cups

Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner at IEEE.org
Sat Jan 29 03:23:13 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 10:02 +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> An odd thing I've noticed about Fedora 3 is that I can stop the cups
> daemon from running, but I can't start or restart it (unless I reboot):
> 
> root at sonic:~> cd /etc/init.d
> root at sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups stop
> Stopping cups:                                             [  OK  ]
> root at sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups start
> Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 99!
>                                                            [FAILED]
> root at sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups restart
> Stopping cups:                                             [FAILED]
> Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 99!
> 
> I'm just wondering is anybody knows why this is so? I've tried other
> Linux
> distros and haven't encountered this particular issue before.


Works-for-me, as expected:

[root at tabb1 ~]# service cups status
cupsd (pid 4531) is running...
[root at tabb1 ~]# service cups stop
Stopping cups:                                             [  OK  ]
[root at tabb1 ~]# service cups start
Starting cups:                                             [  OK  ]
[root at tabb1 ~]# service cups stop
Stopping cups:                                             [  OK  ]
[root at tabb1 ~]# service cups stop
Stopping cups:                                             [FAILED]
[root at tabb1 ~]# service cups restart
Stopping cups:                                             [FAILED]
Starting cups:                                             [  OK  ]
[root at tabb1 ~]# service cups restart
Stopping cups:                                             [  OK  ]
Starting cups:                                             [  OK  ]

Are you up2date with cups?  Has been rather dynamic of late:

[root at tabb1 ~]# grep cups /var/log/yum.log
Dec 18 10:48:32 Updated: cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.1
Dec 18 10:50:17 Updated: cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.1
Dec 18 10:50:28 Updated: cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.1
Dec 23 23:42:57 Updated: cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.2
Dec 23 23:43:03 Updated: cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.2
Dec 23 23:43:18 Updated: cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.2
Jan 11 08:12:07 Updated: cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.3
Jan 11 08:12:21 Updated: cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.3
Jan 11 08:12:32 Updated: cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.3
Jan 20 07:48:24 Updated: cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.4
Jan 20 07:48:34 Updated: cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.4
Jan 20 07:48:40 Updated: cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.8.4

and have a look at "rpm -qi --changelog cups"!

Have seen cups die due to errors in the config files in the past.

Phil





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