Cups restart

[Craig White]

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:
> >   
> >> 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.
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let's look at cups/error_log then.

tail -n 30 /var/log/cups/error_log

Craig