Unable to bind - cannot print to cups

Claire c.l.roberts at bham.ac.uk
Tue Oct 20 03:55:59 PDT 2009


Thanks Helge,

The "unable to bind" message has gone, but I am still unable to print 
from other applications and the two [CGI] errors are still present.

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Claire wrote:
> 
>> I am using CUPS 1.3.10 on Solaris 10, which has worked fine until
>> yesterday. I can print a test page from CUPS to the printer, however no
>> other software will print to CUPS any more.
>>
>> The only error(s) in the CUPS log are:
>> Unable to bind socket for address ::1:631  cannot assign requested address
>>
>> [CGI] rpcclient not found!
>> [CGI] smbclient not found!
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what the problem is and how to fix it please?
> Check if the ipp-listener of the native Solaris spool system is running
> (check with command "svcs -a | grep ipp") and, if it is active,
> disable it with "svcadm disable ipp-listener" (cut and paste the complete
> service descriptor to be on the safe side).
> 
> Helge
> 




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