[cups] cups not working on debian

[Jörg Thümmler]

Am 22.01.23 um 17:54 schrieb Pierre Frenkiel:
> hi,
> I can't make cups to work on my Debian bullseye desktop
> I get:
> 
>   ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -l (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
> and I am unable to fix that.
> 
> Has anybody an idea ?
> 
> If usefull, I can send 1 or more conf files. Tell me which ones you need.
> 
> Pierre Frenkiel
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Hi,

assuming cupsd software is correctly installed (checked that?):

if would try to start it by systemd (your err msg looks like systemd...)

systemctl restart cups

and after that (assuming it exits with the error)

systemctl status cups

and journalctl -r

or journalctl -r -u cups

if nothing comes out of that i would try to start the cups binary 
manually (/usr/sbin/cupsd) and see  if there any err msgs. If it exits 
with failure (which as assume) and you can't see anything of interest, 
you can use strace:

strace /usr/sbin/cupsd

hth
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cu

jth