restarting cups

[Robert Storey]

Thanks to all who replied. I finally tracked the problem to the fact
that my loopback interface in file /etc/hosts "disappeared". (Peter, you
were on the right track). I don't know why it vanished, but it did, so I
manually edited the file and restored it. For those who have no idea
what I'm talking about, you need a line in /etc/hosts that looks
something like this:

  127.0.0.1       localhost.utopia.com    localhost

Output of "/sbin/ifconfig" now shows the loopback interface working:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:276 (276.0 b)  TX bytes:276 (276.0 b)

best regards,
Robert

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:10:36 -0500
Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org> wrote:

> On Friday 28 January 2005 21:02, 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.
> Is there anything more in the /var/log/messages log file?
> What printers do you have configured?
> Can you send your /etc/hosts and ifconfig -a output?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter.
> 
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