[cups.general] Status 98 ?

[Michael Sweet]

lists.cups.general at duinheks.xs4all.nl wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> This morning I had a problem with cups: a print job from NetScape
> never finished and "lpq -a" hang. I tried to (re)start cuposd, but
> got this error:
> cupsd: Child exited with status 98!
> cups: unable to start scheduler.
> 
> What's going on? I have not been able to find a clue in the docs.

errno 98 is EADDRINUSE, which means that cupsd (or another process)
is bound to the usual IPP port.  Use lsof to find the offending
process, and look in /var/log/cups/error_log to see the specific
problem.

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