****Re: Cups restart

[david walcroft]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:45 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:30 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:05 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
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>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I'm trying to restart cupsd but get this error,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo service cups restart
>>>>>> Stopping cups:                                             [FAILED]
>>>>>> Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 1!
>>>>>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I kill a child.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>             
>>>>> ----
>>>>> sounds bad...don't ask it that way.
>>>>>
>>>>> ps aux|grep cups
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there something running?
>>>>>
>>>>> Haven't we been down this path before?
>>>>>
>>>>> Craig
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Yes Craig we have visited a cups problem a month or so ago,
>>>> Cups worked well until a large update down loaded then printing
>>>> stopped.
>>>>
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo ps aux|grep cups
>>>> david     7774  0.0  0.0   4044   676 pts/1    S+   09:19   0:00 grep cups
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>>>
>>>> I looked through 'ps aux' and didn't find anything (not that means anything)
>>>> of a cups child.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> let's look at cups/error_log then.
>>>
>>> tail -n 30 /var/log/cups/error_log
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> This error log is yesterdays and none for today although I have tried
>> printing today.
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo tail -n 30 /var/log/cups/error_log
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] cupsdAcceptClient: 10 from localhost (Domain)
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] cupsdReadClient: 10 PUT 
>> /admin/conf/cupsd.conf HTTP/1.1
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as root using 
>> Local
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] cupsdIsAuthorized: username="root"
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] Installing config file 
>> "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"...
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] cupsdSendError: 10 code=201 (Created)
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] cupsdCloseClient: 10
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] [CGI] lang="en_AU.UTF8", locale="/en_AU"...
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] [CGI] lang="en_AU.UTF8", locale="/en_AU"...
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] [CGI] lang="en_AU.UTF8", locale="/en_AU"...
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] cupsdCloseClient: 8
>> D [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] Saving remote.cache...
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] Listening to :::631 (IPv6)
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 (IPv4)
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock (Domain)
>> W [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] Unknown default authorization type Xb?c 
>> on line 11.
>> E [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] Scheduler shutting down due to program error.
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:46:24 +1000] Saving job cache file 
>> "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:49:37 +1000] Listening to :::631 (IPv6)
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:49:37 +1000] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 (IPv4)
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:49:37 +1000] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock (Domain)
>> W [15/Feb/2008:20:49:37 +1000] Unknown default authorization type Xb?c 
>> on line 11.
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:55:37 +1000] Listening to :::631 (IPv6)
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:55:37 +1000] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 (IPv4)
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:55:37 +1000] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock (Domain)
>> W [15/Feb/2008:20:55:37 +1000] Unknown default authorization type Xb?c 
>> on line 11.
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:57:39 +1000] Listening to :::631 (IPv6)
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:57:39 +1000] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 (IPv4)
>> I [15/Feb/2008:20:57:39 +1000] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock (Domain)
>> W [15/Feb/2008:20:57:39 +1000] Unknown default authorization type Xb?c 
>> on line 11.
>> [david at reddwarf ~]$
>>     
> ----
> answer should be pretty obvious...
>
> edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>
> line 11 should be...
>
> DefaultAuthType Basic
>
> Craig
>
>   
Line 11 was "DefaultAuthType Xb9c"
I changed it to "DefaultAuthType Basic"


Ignore my post about losing this email, I found it in 'Trash'

david