Cups fails to start
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: cups
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
$ apt-cache policy cups
cups:
Installed: 1.4.0-5
Candidate: 1.4.0-5
Version table:
*** 1.4.0-5 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
I expected the printer (cups) to work fine like it did the day before. Instead I get an error in OOffice saying it can't print. Upon further investigation it turns out that system-
When attempting to restart cups with
$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd
cupsd: Child exited on signal 15! [fail]
Cups worked just fine yesterday. There was an update, but it did not seem related to this, just some lib symlinking and deps.
If you need further info I'd be happy to provide it.
It seems that my /etc/cups/ cupsd.conf file became empty sometime in the past 24 hours. Added the contents of a standard cupsd.conf file and it now works.
Might this be caused by the newer version of cups in the recent update?