Cups not there. No menu options no printer

Steve lambrick at netspace.net.au
Tue Dec 16 03:44:52 PST 2008


> 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
>
 Thanks Michael.
I checked the file and All it has is this message:
No valid Listen or Port lines were found in the configuration file!
repeated.
How do I correct it which file am I looking for?




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