[cups.general] Cups not there. No menu options no printer

[Michael R Sweet]

Steve wrote:
>> Help. I have completely lost all cups function. It was working a few days ago till the (ubuntu intrepid) file system disk filled up after I corrected this my printer had dissapeared along with any access to cups.
>> Trying to restart causes a fail message like this:
>>
>> cupsd: Child exited on signal 15!
>> cups: unable to restart scheduler.
>>
>> I have tried to remove and reinstall via synaptis and also tried installing the latest build. nothing appears to work.
>>
>> Help I have no idea what to do.
> 
> 
> I have tried removing and reinstalling cups. tried reinstalling the recent build listed in downloads. tried instaling an earlier version but I still have the same error as above.
> please help.

signal 15 is SIGTERM - probably cupsd is killing itself due to a
configuration error.

Check the /var/log/cups/error_log file for errors.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer