Unable to Access Cups (localhost:631)

[Helge Blischke]

bdegrasse1 at comcast.com wrote:
> 
> Help, I am unable to access cups via http://localhost:631/.  Message is "An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/.  Could not connect to host localhost (port 631)."
> 
> I have tried installing and removing cups a number of time.  I get the following message when I reinstall cupsys, thus the daemon is not running.
> 
> Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdcupsd: Child exited with status 98!
> invoke-rc.d initscript cupsys, action "start" failed.
> 
> How do I debug this problem or better yet what is the problem.
> 
> kernel-2.6.12-1,KDE 3.4.3
> 
> Bruce

Make sure no other daemon is listining or using otherwise port 631.

Helge

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