[cups.general] cups daemon dying

Matt Broughton walterwego at macosx.com.invalid
Wed Nov 23 08:34:49 PST 2005


In article <23140-cups.general at news.easysw.com>, <marc at arctic.net> 
wrote:

> we are running cups on Mac hosts against a linux host running .23.  we are 
> using a 
> BrowsePoll server directive in the workstation cupsd.conf.  we have started 
> to 
> notice that in a number of cases we are seeing either the polld command 
> disappear 
> leaving a /usr/sbin/cupsd -L running or the polld command is still running 
> but 
> there is no cupsd process running,  and therefore no printers available.
> 
> The following appears in the console:
> 
> Nov 21 08:17:57 Macintosh /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/
> MacOS/mcxd: cupsd mach_msg error (ipc/send) timed out
> 
> Can someone help us figure out why we are getting these time outs and what we 
> can do to keep the daemon running during any loss of connection so we don't 
> have 
> to log in as ladmin to restart the daemon

To add to my previous reply, see a reply by Michael Sweet to the 
question of "cupsd process not starting" at 
<http://cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general+v:22744>.

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Matt Broughton
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