Starting CUPS error:- Can't locate module char-major-188

[James Harrison]

Hi,

> service cups status
> give you?
> and does pointing a browser at
> http://localhost:631

Connecting to localhost: Connection refused

> What is char-module-188?  Is it a kernel module I need to load?
> grep '188 char' /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/devices.txt
> (well actually, 2.6.something in my case, but the file is the same)
> 188 char        USB serial converters
>                   0 = /dev/ttyUSB0      First USB serial converter
>                   1 = /dev/ttyUSB1      Second USB serial converter
I saw those in /dev. Readable and writable by owner and group (root).

James

--- Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:

> On Monday 23 August 2004 22:34, James Harrison wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Im trying to enable the cups web browser pages, but when I start the
> init.d
> > script I get this error message:
> >
> > [root at tux cups]# tail -f /var/log/messages&
> > [root at tux cups]# service cups start
> > [root at tux cups]# Aug 23 14:22:08 tux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate
> > module char-major-188
> > Aug 23 14:22:08 tux last message repeated 15 times
> > Aug 23 14:22:08 tux cupsd: cupsd: Child exited with status 98!
> > Aug 23 14:22:08 tux cups: cupsd startup succeeded
> so at this point what does 
> service cups status
> give you?
> and does pointing a browser at
> http://localhost:631
> work?
> >
> > What is char-module-188?  Is it a kernel module I need to load?
> grep '188 char' /usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/devices.txt
> (well actually, 2.6.something in my case, but the file is the same)
> 188 char        USB serial converters
>                   0 = /dev/ttyUSB0      First USB serial converter
>                   1 = /dev/ttyUSB1      Second USB serial converter
> 
> do the device files exist?
> 
> if cups has actually started, then this is a fairly harmless error message.
> 
> Stuart Sears
> RHCE, RHCX
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