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

[Michael R Sweet]

Steve wrote:
>> 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?

In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, make sure you have a line reading:

     Listen localhost:631

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer