Latest CUPS killed all my OS X printers

[Michael Sweet]

germ wrote:
> Sorry if this is not the right forum...
> 
> Installed the latest CUPS on Mac OS X 10.4.9, and not only did this
> delete all my printers, but any attempts of adding a new printer does
> not work.

You need to either restart or try the following commands:

     sudo launchctl unload 
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist
     sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist

> Tried so far, unsuccessfully:
> o Reset printing system
> o Repaired permissions (lots of permissions in CUPS directories "fixed")
> o Run the shareware Printer Repair (or similar name).

None of these are suitable (or generally safe, since they'll break
things) for CUPS 1.2.x.

> The next thing I am going to try is to restart the machine. 
> 
> This is kind of disappointing as the previous versions of CUPS never
> gave me any trouble.

Launchd can sometimes get confused when you do an update/install
of an existing service...

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