Problems with cups and printing

[Peter N Spotts]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:08:44 -0400
Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-26-07 at 10:59 -0400, Peter N Spotts wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > Within the past two days, cups appears to have flown south. It
> > fails to recognize my HP 6540 anymore. All is properly plugged in.
> > But while I can delete the printer from gnome-cups-manager, I can't
> > set it up again. The program just hangs. I've looked at error-log
> > in /var/log/cups, and find it's giving me an extraordinarily long
> > string of the following: 
> > 
> > cupsAddCert: Unable to create certification
> > file /var/run.cups/certs/0
> > - Too many open files
> > Unable to accept client connection -- Too many open files
> > 
> > How can I remedy this? At the moment, no files are open or in the
> > print queue.
> > 
> > Pete
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> Did you restart cups?  
> ==> sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
> 

Yes, and it didn't help...CUPS still goes into CPU overdrive and stays
there when I ask GUI print managers to set up a new printer (so I can
reinstall the one I deleted.)

Pete


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