Web Interface Hangs

[Helge Blischke]

Andreas Fehr wrote:
> 
> Configuring cups with the web interface does not work anymore. I used to
> work some month ago. I recomplied cups 1.1.23 from scratch (new source)
> removed the old configuration and binary directory, and installed it again (in /opt/cups) but I don't get it working.
> 
> The link http://localhost:631/ does work (I see the menu) and some of the static files are displayed (http://localhost:631/documentation.html) but the 'dynamic' pages do not show up.
> 
> The browser just hangs and eventually shows a blank page.
> 
> http://localhost:631/admin does ask the username and password but no page is displayed.
> 
> Do I need some special user for cups (don't remember to have deleted one)?
> 
> Turning on debugging feature (in the log), I get the following output:
> 
> I [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] Started
> "/opt/cups/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=20101)
> D [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] SendCommand: 5 file=8
> d [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] SendCommand: Adding fd 8 to InputSet...
> d [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] SendCommand: Adding fd 5 to OutputSet...
> E [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] PID 20101 stopped with status 13!
> d [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] DeleteCert: removing certificate for pid
> 20101
> d [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] WriteClient: Removing fd 5 from
> OutputSet...
> d [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] WriteClient: Removing fd 8 from InputSet...
> d [04/Dec/2005:03:22:13 +0100] WriteClient: 5 Closing data file 8.
> d [04/Dec/2005:03:22:14 +0100] select_timeout: 287 seconds to update root
> certificate
> 
> Any idea why admin.cgi might get killed?
> 
> I'm running some Linux box and have compiled CUPS with GCC 3.4.1. Since I last checked on Cups, I installed openssl-0.9.7i but I don't think this is a problem, as I even compiled CUPS without openssl
> 
> Now I'm lost, any help?
> AndreasIt is probably a permission problem. Carefully check the users and groups intended
for CUPS administration and the permissions if the CUPS related files and directories.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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