Kernel panic on "cups" startup

[Edward Dekkers]

Toralf Lund wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Nothing I can see there except the first line - Listening to 0:631.

I have a lot of those lines in my log but they always have a hex value 
greater than 0, e.g. Listening to 7f000001:631.

May be nothing, but that's all that sprang out at me.

Regards,
Ed.