restarting cups

[Peter Arremann]

On Friday 28 January 2005 21:02, Robert Storey wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> An odd thing I've noticed about Fedora 3 is that I can stop the cups
> daemon from running, but I can't start or restart it (unless I reboot):
>
> root at sonic:~> cd /etc/init.d
> root at sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups stop
> Stopping cups:                                             [  OK  ]
> root at sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups start
> Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 99!
>                                                            [FAILED]
> root at sonic:/etc/init.d> ./cups restart
> Stopping cups:                                             [FAILED]
> Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 99!
>
> I'm just wondering is anybody knows why this is so? I've tried other
> Linux
> distros and haven't encountered this particular issue before.
Is there anything more in the /var/log/messages log file?
What printers do you have configured?
Can you send your /etc/hosts and ifconfig -a output?

Thanks,

Peter.