Unable to Access Cups (localhost:631)

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.  Port 631 is not in dmesg, I will look for other ways of reviewing ports used.

Did I mention that the cups daemon is not running.  I suspect that is the problem.

Bruce

> 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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