cupsd: Child exited with status 98!

[Michael Sweet]

Scott Anderson wrote:
> Answering my own post.  I searched the threads on this forum again, and this time I found the answer.  (Not sure why I didn't find it the first time.)  ypbind had decided to bind to port 631, so restarting that and (apparently) waiting a while to restart cups worked.  This leads to followup questions/suggestions:
> 
> (1) couldn't this be in the FAQ?

Yes, and in fact anyone is free to write up a FAQ and post it on
the CUPS site (just login and submit on the articles page)

> (2) couldn't the error message be more informative?

Unfortunately, the best we can do at this point is to convert the
number to "address already in use", which IMHO isn't much more
informative.  The child can't write a more meaningful message to
stderr since it will have already been closed, and we can't even
say "look in /var/log/cups/error_log" since the admin might have
configured things in a different location... :(

> (3) Is there a way to make ypbind stay out of the way?

I dunno, you'd have to ask the Linux NIS/NFS folks...

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