****Re: Cups restart

[Craig White]

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:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> 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