[cups] cups problem

[Axel Braun]

Hi,

first of all, please keep the discussion in the list.

Am Sun, 10 Mar 2019
17:51:12 -0400 (EDT) schrieb "fiberfling at gobrb.com"
<fiberfling at gobrb.com>:

> Sorry, I guess I am too old to understand the instructions. I do not
> understand how to do this with a "recovery system", what is that? 

If you have messed up your Linux System you need somehow to get access
to this system in order to e.g. reset the root password.

This is what you need a system for, that allows you to mount the root
file system of the broken system and chroot into it (briefly speaking,
out of my head).

That running system might be an installed second system (but if you are
locked out there as well, I doubt it works). You may want to try the
Unix varaint called MacOS, but I doubt that works. so best you use a
live system (that boots from CD or USB stick)

Some results:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=password+reset+linux+rescue+system



> nor
> how to reset the root password. I attempted it through google only to
> get confused on the instructions.  It was quite confusing as the
> words had no meaning for me.  I couldn't even get into root without
> screwing things up. Burness Speakman 

If there is nothing of value in these installations you might just kill
them ans reinstall?

HTH
Axel

-----Original Message-----
> From: "Axel Braun" <Axel.braun at gmx.de>
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2019 12:02pm
> To: "The CUPS user discussion list." <cups at cups.org>,
> "fiberfling at gobrb.com" <fiberfling at gobrb.com>, cups at cups.org Subject:
> Re: [cups] cups problem
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 10. März 2019 12:40:24 GMT-03:00 schrieb "fiberfling at gobrb.com"
> <fiberfling at gobrb.com>:
> 
> >I have 3 OS in my box, windows 7, Linux 18.04, Linux 12.04 and a
> >Macintosh partition.  
> 
> What is Linux 18.04 or 12.04?
> Never heard of such a distro.
> 
> > It is the Linux partitions I am contacting CUPS
> >about. Cups is gone, the printers (two) will not work. Not
> >recognized, no spooling, I seem to be locked out, can't reinstall
> >CUPS . CUPS is not working very well, maybe not at all.  
> 
> Your problem is most likely not related to Cups. Software does not
> disappear. If you are locked out, use a recovery or live system to
> reset the root password. Google will help
> 
> 
> Schöne Grüße
>  Axel