Kernel panic on "cups" startup

[Toralf Lund]

Edward Dekkers wrote:

> Toralf Lund wrote:
>
>> My (Red Hat 9) system has started displaying a "kernel panic" message 
>> on the console, then freezing completely, when the "cups" service is 
>> started. Everything worked fine a couple of days ago, and as usual, I 
>> know of no setup changes made since then. With cups disabled, the 
>> system seems to operate correctly, except I can't print, obviously. 
>> There is no printer connected directly to this host; cups is used to 
>> print across the net. I'm not sure I can give you the exact error 
>> message, as it doesn't seem to be stored in the system log or anything.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> - Toralf
>>
>>
> No errors even in /var/log/cups?

Nothing there except

I [09/Mar/2004:14:19:31 +0100] Listening to 0:631
I [09/Mar/2004:14:19:31 +0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [09/Mar/2004:14:19:31 +0100] Allowing up to 10 client connections per 
host.
I [09/Mar/2004:14:19:31 +0100] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 18 
PPDs...
I [09/Mar/2004:14:19:32 +0100] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs...

- Toralf