CUPS daemon won't start

[Helge Blischke]

Did your initial installation process report any errors? Or did you try
an
upgrade from an earlier distribution instead of a clean install?

I ask this because I myself installed a SuSE 8.2 installation quite out
of
the box and I have no trouble with that weird novell backend and its
dependencies.

Helge

mannunzi at unisa.it wrote:
> 
> I've applied successfully the following guidelines
> supplied me from feedback at suse.de:
> 
> Very many reasons are possible to get a segmentation fault.
> Therefore I don't know what it may be in your particular case.
> 
> A brutal method which may help is to
> - uninstall the cups packages,
> - remove the contents of /etc/cups/* (but not /etc/cups/)
> - remove the /var/spool/cups/ and /var/log/cups/ directories
> - re-install the cups packages
> 
>    Mario
> 
> mannunzi wrote:
> > Thank a lot,
> >
> > 1) but this is not enough to solve the problem.
> > Now I have the follwing message:
> >
> > Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
> > Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > 2) Why has Yast2 not checked the dependence for URI ?
> >
> > Mario
> >
> > Helge Blischke wrote:
> > > mannunzi at unisa.it wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > CUPS daemon (cupsd) won't start on linux SuSE 8.2 (kernel 2.4.20).
> > > >
> > > > When invoked with the -f switch, the following message is printed:
> > > >
> > > > Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
> > > > Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
> > > > Can't locate URI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/cups/backend/novell line 11.
> > > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/cups/backend/novell line 11.
> > > > Segmentation fault
> > > >
> > > > Is there anyone who know how to solve this problem ?
> > > >
> > > Complete your perl installation. Obviously the module "URI.pm" isn't
> > > installed.
> > > Launch YAST2, select software installation, search for "URI" and install
> > > what is
> > > needed.
> > >
> > > Helge
> > >
> > > --
> > > H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
> > > H.Blischke at srz-berlin.com
> > > H.Blischke at acm.org
> >

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